State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2008
21 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 132 W. Va. 881 - Carter v. City of Bluefield · 129 W. Va. 198 - State v. Huber · 132 W. Va. 580 - State Ex Rel. Bumgardner v. Mills · 143 W. Va. 674 - Daurelle v. Traders Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · 144 W. Va. 346 - Re: The Assessment of Shares of Stock of the Kanawna Valley Bank
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The same person shall not be elected sheriff for two consecutive full terms; nor shall any person who acted as his deputy he elected successor to such sheriff, nor shall any sheriff act as deputy of his successor; * * * [Emphasis supplied]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. (2008) · Wheeler v. Exline““A person who has acted as deputy for a sheriff duly elected to a full term is ineligible, under the provisions of Article IX, Section 3 of the Constitution of West Virginia, to be elected sheriff for the next succeeding full term.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It seems to me the legislature intended to use, for the sake of speedy final determination in the court of last resort, the only writ available under the circumstances — mandamus as a writ of review to operate as a writ of certiorari; taking cognizance of all questions arising in the case, if the matter be one in nature at all reviewable on certiorari.””
2 later decisions 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.