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← 71 WVA 87 - State v. Highland

State v. Highland’s Empirical Analysis

1912

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited

1 district · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2017

1 district · 5 state decisions

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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 Moss v. State · State v. Hill · State v. Kohne · 42 N.J. Eq. 139 - Huylar v. Cragin Cattle Co. · Savino v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the trial court in proper cases of imperative necessity has inherent power to order disinterment of a body in trials for murder to ascertain the truth respecting the homicide, in due administration of justice....”
    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.