112 W. Va. 212 - Saunders v. State Compensation Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1977
3 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 United Fuel Gas Co. v. Public Service Commission · 105 W. Va. 447 - McShan v. Heaberlin · 108 W. Va. 68 - Meeks v. State Compensation Commissioner · 107 W. Va. 272 - Caldwell v. State Compansation Commisioner · 111 W. Va. 454 - Scott v. State Compensation Commissioner
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The `appeal' to this court provided for in the compensation statute is always regarded as an application to this court to exercise its original jurisdiction as by mandamus or prohibition and is governed largely by the same legal principles and procedure.”
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.