Webb v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 1992 · most notably 64 W. Va. 659 - State v. Snyder (1908), 125 W. Va. 512 - Sims v. Fisher (1943)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 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 Muller v. Dows · King v. Mullins · Richard Watkins v. Oliver Holman · Fulkerson v. Holmes · Corbett v. Nutt
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An invalid sale of land to the state for nonpayment of taxes does not relieve the owner thereof from the duty of causing the same to be kept on the land books and charged with taxes, in order to prevent forfeiture of the title under section 6 of article 13 of the Constitution.””
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.