114 W. Va. 555 - Ferrell v. State Compensation Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1999
2 federal appellate · 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 Wilson Berger Coal Co. v. Metcalf · Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. v. Ball · Engels Copper Mining Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission
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.
““For his [official] services in such connection he may have recompense only as fixed by law. A promise of a third person, whether individual or corporate, to remunerate him for such services is against public policy and cannot be enforced.” Ferrell v. State Compensation Com'r, 114 W.Va. 555 , 556, 172 S.E. 609 , 610 (1934).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Mathews“whereby employers of labor would have certain of their watchmen or peace conservators commissioned as deputy sheriffs so as to give them the standing of public officials in the discharge of their duties to their employers.”
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.