36 W. Va. 179 - State v. Mounts’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. State of West Virginia State of Ohio (1923), 148 W. Va. 398 - State Ex Rel. County Court of Marion County v. Demus (1964)
28 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Louisville v. Savings Bank
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question here presented is whether the jury commissioners created by the act now under consideration are officers of the state, or whether they are in fact, like jurors themselves, mere officers of the court, such as commissioners in chancery, and, in a general sense, attorneys. We think there can be no doubt that such commissioners belong to the latter class, and go to make up a part of the judicial machinery, such as commissioners in chancery, general and special receivers, and other similar officers. Jurors are themselves, in a certain sense, officers of the court; and this special commission is only a legislative device intended to aid the court in selecting them.” (Page 184.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Nation““Where the Legislature in the act itself declares that the law shall take effect from and after its passage, the question becomes one not of constitutional construction at all, but of legislative intent; and where there is no indication that the Legislature meant otherwise it would doubtless be a fair inference that the Legislature intended the Act to take effect from the date of its approval by the Governor, and that such approval should not relate back to the day of its passage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his veto amounts to an appeal for `reconsideration' by the legislative branch, and not to a defeasance of the passage of the bill”
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.