138 W. Va. 660 - Vest v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 (1959), State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548 (1959)
120 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 Dent v. State of West Virginia · 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly · Lambert v. Yellowley · 121 W. Va. 319 - Chapman v. Huntington, West Virginia, Housing Authority · 129 W. Va. 722 - State Ex Rel. Cosner v. See
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a statute is clear and unambiguous and the legislative intent is plain, the statute should not be interpreted by the courts, and in such case it is the duty of the courts not to construe but to apply the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]t is a cardinal rule of statutory construction that a statute should be construed as a whole, so as to give effect, if possible, to every word, phrase, paragraph and provision thereof[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court should not, and will not, control the policy of the Legislature in the valid exercise of the police power of the State pertaining to the public health. Our duty is simply to interpret the statutes of this State when they involve inconsistent provisions, and to apply the statutes when they are clear and unambiguous; * * *.”
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.