State v. Hereford’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2014
14 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · 129 W. Va. 54 - Harbert v. County Court of Harrison County · 129 W. Va. 722 - State Ex Rel. Cosner v. See · Sult v. A. Hochstetter Oil Co. · 147 W. Va. 660 - Rakes v. Ferguson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute which provides for a thing to be done in a particular manner or by a prescribed person or tribunal implies that it shall not be done -otherwise or by a different person or tribunal; and the maxim expressio unius est exclusio alterius, the express mention of one thing implies the exclusion of another, applies to such statute.”
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.