118 W. Va. 508 - State v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 (1959), State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 (1959)
32 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 The Floyd Acceptances · Amy v. The Supervisors · Johnson v. Burns · Delafield v. State · Wiley v. City of Sparta
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the language used is clear and unambiguous, courts must be governed thereby, and should never attempt to read into a constitutional or statutory provision a meaning which was not intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no safer or better settled canon of interpretation than that when language is clear and unambiguous it must be held to mean what it plainly expresses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.