152 W. Va. 571 - State v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 371 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 201 W. Va. 108 - Walker v. West Virginia Ethics Commission. (1997), Better Government Bureau, Inc. v. McGraw (1997)
2 federal appellate · 371 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 Clark v. Barnard · 131 W. Va. 793 - Baird-Gatzmer Corp. v. Henry Clay Coal Mining Co. · Salem v. Anson · Lyman v. . Perlmutter · State v. Vending Machine Corp.
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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the language of a statute is clear and without ambiguity the plain meaning is to be accepted without resorting to the rules of interpretation.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the language of a statute is clear and without ambiguity the plain meaning is to be accepted....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no contention that there are any contrary provisions in the law which prescribes the bond or in the bond itself. Furthermore, it is quite obvious that it cannot be estimated with any degree of certainty what the cost of reclamation of the twelve acre tract would be. If this rule concerning the amount of recovery on the subject bond appears harsh, it is so with good cause. For too many years has our state permitted its hills and vales to be ravaged by the steel jaws of the behemoth-like shovel. Strip mining is a legitimate pursuit and thankfully the majority of those engaged therein are law abiding. However, experience has shown that even the legitimate operator becomes lax and frequently fails to fully comply with the law. With the recent enactment of more stringent laws regulating surface mining it is quite apparent that the legislature intended the forfeiture of the face amount of the bond as a penalty for the failure to comply with the 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.