152 W. Va. 53 - State Ex Rel. Metz v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 153 W. Va. 636 - State Ex Rel. West Virginia Housing Development Fund v. Copenhaver (1969), 161 W. Va. 262 - Woodring v. Whyte (1978)
31 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. 740 - State Ex Rel. Appalachian Power Co. v. Gainer · 129 W. Va. 54 - Harbert v. County Court of Harrison County · 148 W. Va. 398 - State Ex Rel. County Court of Marion County v. Demus · 146 W. Va. 22 - Farley v. Graney · State v. Harden
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the constitutionality of a statute is challenged, every reasonable construction must be resorted to by the courts to sustain its validity and any reasonable doubt must be resolved in favor of the constitutionality of the legislative act in question.”
7 later decisions 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.