151 W. Va. 113 - State Ex Rel. Brewer v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Kneip v. Herseth (1974), 160 W. Va. 329 - State v. City of Follansbee (1977)
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 148 W. Va. 535 - State Ex Rel. Summerfield v. Maxwell · 133 W. Va. 463 - Evans v. Charles · Booten v. Pinson · State ex rel. Thompson v. McAllister · 134 W. Va. 867 - Simms v. County Court of Kanawha County
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.
“"The right to become a candidate for election to public office is a valuable and fundamental right. The legislature may, however, prescribe the qualifications of a person who desires to become a candidate for office, but provisions in that regard must be reasonable and not in conflict with any constitutional provision. A candidate must possess the statutory qualifications and electors cannot nominate as a candidate one who is disqualified to accept the nomination."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The power of the legislature to regulate the nomination and election of candidates for public office and to prescribe essential qualifications to be possessed by candidates in order to be eligible to be nominated or elected is plenary within constitutional limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No person, except citizens entitled to vote, shall be elected . . .”
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.