State v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1972
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Owens · 91 W. Va. 659 - State v. Wills · Cunningham & Son v. Baker, Peterson & Co. · Pickett v. State · State v. Gartland
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court of Appeals * * * transferred the cause to this court because it deemed the construction of certain sections of the state Constitution to be involved, a conclusion with which we agree. The constitutional question was timely raised in the trial court and well preserved. Appellate jurisdiction of the cause is therefore in this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.