120 W. Va. 122 - Wysong v. Walden’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably 171 W. Va. 445 - Nelson v. West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Board (1983), 162 W. Va. 672 - Pauley v. Kelly (1979)
29 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 Speed v. Common Council · Matter of Guden · 116 W. Va. 435 - Neal v. Board of Education · 102 W. Va. 251 - Kesling v. Moore · 117 W. Va. 114 - White v. Board of Education of Lincoln County
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the grounds of the motion to quash is that the petition was signed with a typewriter and not personally. The statute (Code, 1931, 6-6-7) provides that, in the case of the removal of any county officer, the charges shall be reduced to writing, and the same ‘may be preferred, * * * by * * * any five or more voters’ of the county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“According to many authorities, a public officer may not be removed or impeached for acts committed before his entry into office, including acts during a prior term of the same office, or acts of misconduct in another office.”
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.