154 W. Va. 190 - Smith v. Godby’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 336 So. 2d 97 - Advisory Opinion to Gov. Request of July 12, 1976 (1976), 183 W. Va. 528 - Bettinger v. Bettinger (1990)
43 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. 622 - Bluefield Supply Co. v. Frankel's Appliances, Inc. · Ivy v. Edwards · Daugherty v. Ellis · 142 W. Va. 340 - Daugherty v. Ellis · Moore v. Strickling
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the finding of a trial court in a case tried by it in lieu of a jury is against .the preponderance of the evidence, is not supported by the evidence, or is plainly wrong, such finding will be reversed and set aside by this Court upon appellate review.’ Point 4, Syllabus, Smith v. Godby, 154 W.Va. 190 , 174 S.E.2d 165 (1970).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"According to many authorities, a public officer may not be removed or impeached for acts committed before his entry into office, . . .."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term “neglect of duty,” or the term “official misconduct,” as used in this article, shall include the willful waste of public funds by any officer or officers, or the appointment by him or them of an incompetent or disqualified person to any office or position and the retention of such person in office, or in the position to which he was appointed....”
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.