114 W. Va. 513 - Berry v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably 130 W. Va. 645 - State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims (1947), 149 W. Va. 740 - State Ex Rel. Appalachian Power Co. v. Gainer (1965)
25 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 Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Union Refrigerator Transit Company v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Scott v. McNeal · Looney v. Crane 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The credit of the State shall not be granted to,- or in aid of any county, city, township, corporation or person; nor shall the State ever assume, or become responsible for the debts or liabilities of any county, city, township, corporation or person; nor shall the State ever hereafter become a joint owner, or stockholder in any company or association in this State or elsewhere, formed for any purpose whatever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““These debts (for the construction of schoolhouses) made possible the construction of valuable improvements for the special benefit of the respective communities themselves. In reason and fairness, the communities which incurred the debts should pay them. No other community had any voice in contracting the debts and should not therefore be required to help pay them. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“But we are not familiar with any principle of law which gives like weight and dignity to a legislative declaration in respect of an existing condition as of fact but actually juristical.”
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.