144 W. Va. 72 - State Ex Rel. Graney v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner (1975), 159 W. Va. 14 - Fruehauf Corp. v. Huntington Moving & Storage Co. (1975)
3 federal appellate · 105 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 131 W. Va. 584 - City of Wheeling Ex Rel. Carter v. American Casualty Co. · 134 W. Va. 278 - State Ex Rel. Dyer v. Sims · Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. v. Patton · Castos. v. Upshur County High School Board · 121 W. Va. 234 - Phillips v. Commercial Credit 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the title of the act was such that it should have provoked a reading of the act by a person interested in its subject matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. West Virginia Manufacturers Association, a Nonprofit West Virginia Corporation v. State of West Virginia and Lawrence Barker, Commissioner of Labor of the State of West Virginia, and United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio-Clc and Paul Rusen, Director District 23, United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio-Clc, West Virginia Manufacturers Assoc., a Nonprofit West Virginia Corporation v. State of West Virginia and Lawrence Barker, Commissioner of Labor of the State of Wv, and United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio-Clc and Paul Rusen, Director District 23, United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio-Clc, West Virginia Manufacturers Assoc., a Nonprofit West Virginia Corporation v. State of West Virginia and Lawrence Barker, Commissioner of Labor of the State of Wv, and United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio-Clc and Paul Rusen, Director District 23, United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio-Clc, Third-Party · West Virginia Manufacturers Ass'n v. West Virginia“[t]he repeal of a statute by implication is not favored, and where two statutes are in apparent conflict, the Court must, if reasonably possible, construe such statutes so as to give effect to each.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Sorsby
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.