Powell v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1997
10 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 Hubbard v. Yocum · Ruffner v. Love · Lowther v. Davis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The good cause for not having taken the appeal within 10 days [now 20 days] required by section 174 of chapter 50 of the Code [now W.Va.Code, 50-5-12] must be such as would authorize a court of equity, if the suit had been in the circuit court, to enjoin a judgment of such court till a new trial of the case could be had when a party had failed to apply to the common-law court during the term for a new trial; such, for instance, as fraud, accident, mistake, or surprise, or some adventitious circumstance beyond the control of the party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bosserdet v. Poe
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.