130 W. Va. 246 - State v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Bruce v. Gregory (1967), 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis (1949)
55 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 United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co. · 129 W. Va. 54 - Harbert v. County Court of Harrison County · 129 W. Va. 722 - State Ex Rel. Cosner v. See · 112 W. Va. 98 - State Road Commission v. County Court of Kanawha County · State v. Woodward
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no right of inspection of a public record when the inspection is sought to satisfy a person's mere whim or fancy, to engage in a pastime, to create scandal, to degrade another, to injure public morals, or to further any improper or useless end or purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“" ‘In resolving the question of the constitutionality of an act of the Legislature * * *, two controlling principles must be kept in mind. The first of these principles is that the power of the legislative department * * * is subject only to the limitations imposed by the State and Federal Constitutions. State v. Woodward, 68 W.Va. 66 , 69 S.E. 385 , 30 L.R.A.N.S., 1004 [ (1910) ]. The test of legislative power in this State is constitutional restriction. That which the Constitution of this State does not prohibit the Legislature from doing, and which does not violate the Constitution of the United States, the Legislature may do Harbert v. Harrison County Court, 129 W.Va. 54 , 39 S.E.2d 177 [(1946)]; State Road Commission v. County Court, 112 W.Va. 98 , 163 S.E. 815 [(1932)]. The power of the Legislature of a State is an attribute of sovereignty and its power would be absolute if there were no constitutional limitations. Howard v. Ferguson, 116 W.Va. 362 , 180 S.E. 529 [(1935)]. The other principle is that any doubt as to the constitutionality of an act of the Legislature will always be resolved in favor of the validity of the statute. State [ex rel. Cosner] v. See, [129] W.Va. [722], 42 S.E.2d 31 [(1947)]; State v. Furr, 101 W.Va. 178 , 132 S.E. 504 [(1926)].’ State v. Harrison, 130 W.Va. 246 [, 249], 43 S.E.2d 214 [, 216 (1947)].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]his widely recognized principle is based upon the attitude of deference of the judiciary for the legislative department of the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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