123 W. Va. 385 - Ebbert v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Lodge 1858, American Federation of Government Employees v. James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lodge 1858, American Federation of Government Employees v. James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Appeal of National Council of Technical Service Industries (1978), 131 W. Va. 584 - City of Wheeling Ex Rel. Carter v. American Casualty Co. (1948)
22 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 Westover v. . Aetna Life Ins. Co. · Estate of Steehler · People, Ex Rel. Mason v. . McClave · 59 W. Va. 605 - Harvey Coal & Coke Co. v. Dillon · Wellsburg & State Line Railroad v. Pan Handle Traction Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“AN ACT to provide for the appointment and promotion of members of paid police departments in cities and municipalities; to provide for the creation and maintenance of a civil service commission for that purpose; to establish rules and procedure therefor; to regulate the manner in which demotions and discharge of employees of paid police departments shall be made, and the rights and limitations of said employees in that respect; to provide for other matters relating to the duties and powers of said civil service commission, defining its powers, limiting its authority, etc.; and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the construction of a statute[,] a court should seek to avoid any conflict in its provisions by endeavoring to reconcile every word, section, or part thereof, so that each shall be effective; and where a statute lends itself to two constructions, one of which will result in an irreconcilable conflict between its provisions, and the other will result in no conflict, the latter construction should be adopted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * It is understood and intended by this act to furnish a complete and exclusive system for the appointment, promotion, reduction, removal and reinstatement of all officers, policemen or other employees of said police departments in all cities and municipalities of five thousand population or more, wherein the members of the police department are paid”
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.