154 W. Va. 397 - State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey (1983), 173 W. Va. 133 - State Ex Rel. Hamstead v. Dostert (1984)
5 federal appellate · 94 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 Martin v. Smith · 149 W. Va. 421 - State Ex Rel. Heck's, Inc. v. Gates · McConiha v. Guthrie · 149 W. Va. 493 - Work v. Rogerson · State ex rel. City of Huntington v. Lombardo
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the term is used in a statute its meaning must be determined by a construction, not only of the particular section in which it is used, but by the statute as a whole and by other statutes of which the particular one forms a part as being in pari materia; and, also, constitutional provisions should be looked to as aids in deciding the question. Furthermore, the wording of particular statutes may be such that the same position may be held to be an office for one -purpose and not for another.” (Emphasis added.) 154 W. Va. at 421 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“did intentionally, willfully, unlawfully and feloniously attempt to bribe, Dale Curry, an executive and ministerial officer of the State of West Virginia, being duly qualified and appointed, to-wit: Dale Curry, a Buyer in the Purchasing Division of the Department of Finance and Administration of the State of West Virginia, and who was then and there known by the said ED GILLESPIE, to be such an executive and ministerial officer of the State of West Virginia, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.