145 W. Va. 635 - State Ex Rel. Lambert v. Carman’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 147 W. Va. 484 - Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co. (1962), State ex rel. Hardesty v. Aracoma—Chief Logan No. 4523 (1963)
32 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 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly · 137 W. Va. 345 - Douglass v. Koontz · Hood v. City of Wheeling · 96 W. Va. 611 - State v. McDowell Lodge No. 112 · Fry v. City of Ronceverte
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a person claims an exemption from a law imposing a license or tax, such law is strictly construed against the person claiming the exemption.”
2 later decisions 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.