82 W. Va. 422 - Finney v. Zingale’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1996
6 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 Roberts v. Thomas · 75 W. Va. 739 - Lyons v. Davy-Pocahontas Coal Co. · 75 W. Va. 623 - Turk v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · Comisky v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · Williamson v. Glen Alum Coal 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.
““That the arrest of one who is innocent must be unlawful is naturally an attractive statement; but, if the forms of law be observed, such statement is not necessarily true. An arrest and consequent imprisonment may be unjust and mistaken, but, if it be lawful (i.e., in compliance with the technical requirements of statute or common law, as the case may be), then no trespass was committed...””
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.