State v. Renick’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2016
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission · 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly · Bluefield Waterworks Improvement Co v. Public Service Commission of West Virginia · People of State of New York New York Queens Gas Co v. McCall · State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The public service commission has the statutory power and authority to control the facilities, charges and services of all public utilities and to hear and determine the complaints of persons entitled to the services which such utilities afford; and the only limitation upon such power and authority is that the requirements shall not be contrary to law and that they shall be just and fair, just and reasonable, and just and proper.’ Syllabus Point 6, State ex rel. City of Wheeling v. Renick, 145 W.Va. 640 , 116 S.E.2d 763 (1960).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[r]epeal of a statute by implication is not favored in law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The governing body shall have power, and it shall be its duty, by ordinance, to establish and maintain just and equitable rates or charges for the use of and the service rendered by such works, to be paid by the owner of each and every lot, parcel of real estate or building that is connected with and uses such works by or through any part of the sewerage system of the municipality, or that in any way uses or is served by such works, and may change and readjust such rates or charges from time to time.””
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.