Bennett v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1931
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In numerous eases, both in Virginia and this State, it has been decided that a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury sworn to try the issue joined, when no issue is in fact joined or where there 'were more than one plea, and no issue had’ been joined on some one of such pleas, such judgment will for that, reason only be set aside by the appellate court.” In Brown v. Cunningham, 23 W. Va. 111 , Judge G-REEN cites numerous cases and says:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shires v. Boggess
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.