152 W. Va. 400 - State Ex Rel. Baker v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2014
16 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 149 W. Va. 11 - State Ex Rel. Zagula v. Grossi · 149 W. Va. 381 - State Ex Rel. Smith v. Kelly · Blackmer v. Hildreth · 134 W. Va. 1 - State Ex Rel. Morgan v. O'Brien · State ex rel. Revercomb v. O'Brien
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a statute provides for a thing to be done in a particular manner or by a prescribed person or tribunal it is implied that it shall not be done otherwise or by a different person or tribunal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The legislature has fixed the time in which the proper committees can fill vacancies which may occur in party nominations of candidates for offices caused by death, withdrawal or failure to make a nomination and this Court can not change the provisions of the statute....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he familiar maxim expressio unius est exclusio alterius [means] the express mention of one thing implies the exclusion of another. . . .”
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.