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← 8 WVA 612 - Slack v. Jacob

Slack v. Jacob’s Empirical Analysis

1875

Citation profile

86
cited by 86 later decisions
5
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

83 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 130 W. Va. 645 - State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims (1947), Caroline Dobbins v. City of Los Angeles (1904)

83 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Mayor of Baltimore v. State ex rel. Board of Police · People ex rel. McCauley & Tevis v. Brooks · Bridges v. Shallcross · Newland v. Marsh

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

  1. ““The Seat of Government shall be at Charleston, until otherwise provided by law.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It does not apply to claims predicated upon simple justice and right. . .”
    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.