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← 33 WVA 250 - State v. McClaugherty

State v. McClaugherty’s Empirical Analysis

1889

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
17
states following
April 1981
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1981 · most notably 144 W. Va. 504 - West Virginia State Bar v. Earley (1959), Bar Ass'n v. Greenhood (1897)

1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 17 states

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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 Ex parte Robinson · Burr · People v. Wilson · State v. Frew & Hart · People ex rel. Mulford v. Turner

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ .... It would be carrying the doctrine too far to hold, that an attorney must be free from every vice, and to strike him from the roll of attorneys because he may indulge in irregularities affecting to some extent his moral character, when such delinquencies do not affect his personal or professional integrity.....” (State v. McClaugherty, 33 W. Va. 250 , 10 S. E. 407 .)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “disobedience. . . to any lawful process, judgment, decree or order of said court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.