Slack v. Jacob’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
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
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.
““The Seat of Government shall be at Charleston, until otherwise provided by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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.