State v. Holbert’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1993
4 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 129 W. Va. 54 - Harbert v. County Court of Harrison County · Hatcher v. State of Texas · 126 W. Va. 643 - State Ex Rel. Boone National Bank of Madison v. Manns · Curry v. Town of Mannington · Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Lackland
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems clear that the present action is upon the bond. To hold otherwise would effectively nullify the applicable provisions of (the statute). Such provisions should be liberally construed to the end that public officers and sureties on their bonds should be held strictly liable in accounting for public funds.””
2 later decisions 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.