146 W. Va. 674 - Copley v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A person who has acted as deputy for a sheriff duly elected to a full term is ineligible, under the provisions of Article IX, Section 3 of the Constitution of West Virginia, to be elected sheriff for the next succeeding full term.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wheeler v. Exline

2. ““This Court holds that Chambers was ineligible to be elected sheriff * * * because * * * no person who has acted as deputy to a sheriff shall be elected successor to such sheriff.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wheeler v. Exline

3. “The notice of contest shall be presented to the county court at its first term after the same is delivered to the person whose election is contested, * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. County Court of Kanawha County