State v. McClaugherty’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
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
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.
““ .... 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“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.