146 W. Va. 147 - Wallington v. Zinn’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2004
12 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 Barsky v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York · Hayman v. City of Galveston · 138 W. Va. 660 - Vest v. Cobb · Findlay v. Board of Sup'rs of County of Mohave · Richardson v. City of Miami
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the overall duty and responsibility of- the board in the efficient operation or management of the hospital, for the purpose for which created, the best service for the greatest number of people in the community. In the exercise of that discretion by the board, without arbitrariness, caprice or discrimination, the Courts can not interfere.”
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.