134 W. Va. 303 - Wiseman v. Calvert’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 39 Cal. 4th 1272 - Copley Press, Inc. v. Superior Court (2006), Better Government Bureau, Inc. v. McGraw (1997)
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 State v. Harden · 129 W. Va. 198 - State v. Huber · 126 W. Va. 828 - Hayes v. Town of Cedar Grove · 125 W. Va. 512 - Sims v. Fisher · Brazie v. Fayette County Commissioners
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Legislature may confer upon a court or some administrative officer or board the power to perform some judicial or ministerial act in the formation of such public corporations'.... The county commission, then, acts as an agency of the legislature performing a ministerial act in the formation of public corporations”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the term `quasi' is used in legal phraseology `to indicate that one subject resembles another . . . in certain characteristics, but that there are intrinsic and material differences between them. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The prefix `quasi' means `as if; as though; as it were; in a manner; in a certain sense or degree; having some resemblance to; seeming; seemingly'.”
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.