149 W. Va. 413 - State v. Wender’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2013
18 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Wholesale Tobacco Dealers Bureau of Southern California, Inc. v. National Candy & Tobacco Co. · Gambone v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Zasloff · 144 W. Va. 346 - Re: The Assessment of Shares of Stock of the Kanawna Valley Bank
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature is vested with a wide discretion in determining what the public interest requires, the wisdom of which may not be inquired into by the courts; however, to satisfy the requirements of due process of law, legislative acts must bear a reasonable relationship to a proper legislative purpose and be neither arbitrary nor discriminatory.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No property shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law. ..”
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.