123 W. Va. 167 - Arbogast v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1988 · most notably Low v. Town of Madison (1948), Hetrich v. County Commissioners (1960)
26 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 Ehlinger v. Clark · 102 W. Va. 251 - Kesling v. Moore · 101 W. Va. 485 - Hamrick v. McCutcheon · Parrish v. Town of Adel · People ex rel. Shirey v. Pearson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any state officer holding any elective office (except the governor, any judge, or a member of the legislature of this State), may be removed from office, by the governor, in the manner provided in the following section: (a) when disqualified from holding the office under any provision of the Constitution of this State, or any law now in force, or which may hereafter be enacted, whether such disqualification arose before or after his induction into office; (b) for official misconduct, malfeasance in office, incompetence, neglect of duty, or gross immorality.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“or for any of the causes or on any of the grounds provided by any other statute”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daugherty v. Day
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.