Capito v. Topping’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 1983 · most notably Threadgill v. Cross, Secretary of State (1910), State ex rel. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Board of Equalizers (1922)
35 state decisions — followed in 12 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 State ex rel. Dillon v. County Court · County Court of Braxton County v. State of West Virginia Ex Rel C W Dillon M W C · Webster v. City of Hastings · Wise v. Bigger · Wolfe v. McCaull
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Constitutional provisions] to the extent of their duration, . . . define and limit the policy of the state more rigidly and unalterably than the sails and rudder of the ship, when set, govern and control its course.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.