147 W. Va. 699 - State Ex Rel. Cackowska v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably 174 W. Va. 139 - Allen v. State of West Virginia Human Rights Commission (1984), 188 W. Va. 85 - State v. Lewis (1992)
39 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 State v. County Court · 97 W. Va. 343 - State Ex Rel. Buxton v. O'Brien · Wheeling Bridge & T. R'y Co. v. Paull · 130 W. Va. 418 - State Ex Rel. United Fuel Gas Co. v. Deberry · 113 W. Va. 163 - McComas v. Warth
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mandamus will not lie to direct the manner in which a trial court should exercise its discretion with regard to an act either judicial or quasi-judicial, but a trial court, or other inferior tribunal, may be compelled to act in a case if it unreasonably neglects or refuses to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.