121 W. Va. 407 - Glover v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably 130 W. Va. 645 - State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims (1947), 149 W. Va. 740 - State Ex Rel. Appalachian Power Co. v. Gainer (1965)
81 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 Slack v. Jacob · Woodall v. Darst · 114 W. Va. 513 - Berry v. Fox · Lusher v. Scites · 114 W. Va. 603 - Wilson v. County Court of Clay 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one can successfully assert that a proper athletic program is not appropriate to a great educational institution. The physical welfare of young men and women cannot with propriety be ignored. Education is a proper function of state government and includes appropriate physical development as well as mental and moral. Granting that mistakes may have been made throughout the land in over-emphasis of inter-collegiate athletic activities, such fact can in no degree overshadow the wholesome importance of properly regulated and directed inter-collegiate and intra-mural athletic programs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * nor shall any Legislature authorize the payment of any claim or part thereof, hereafter created against the State, under any agreement or contract made, without express authority of law; and all such unauthorized agreements shall be null and void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for full payment of all outstanding open accounts of the Athletic Department of West Virginia University, to be expended as the Board of Control may direct.”
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.