155 W. Va. 193 - Smith v. Siders’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably 174 W. Va. 139 - Allen v. State of West Virginia Human Rights Commission (1984), 161 W. Va. 262 - Woodring v. Whyte (1978)
29 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 129 W. Va. 198 - State v. Huber · 151 W. Va. 655 - Owens-Illinois Glass Company v. Battle · 145 W. Va. 70 - State Ex Rel. Ellis v. Kelly · 135 W. Va. 568 - City of Huntington v. State Water Commission · 119 W. Va. 235 - Simpson v. Stanton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be synonymous with and shall have the same meaning as”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) “Professional educator” shall be synonymous with and shall have the same meaning as “teacher” as defined in section one [§ 18-1-1], article one, chapter eighteen of this Code. Professional educators shall be classified as: (2) “Principal”: The professional educator who as agent of the board has responsibility for the supervision, management and control of a school or schools within the guidelines established by said board. The major area of such responsibility shall be the general supervision of all the school and all school activities involving pupils, teachers and other school personnel. (4) “Central office administrator”: The superintendent, associate superintendent, assistant superintendent, and other professional educators, whether by these or other appropriate titles, who are charged with the administering and su pervising of the whole or some assigned part of the total program of the countywide school system.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) "Classroom teacher": The professional educator who has direct instructional or counseling relationship with pupils, spending the majority of his time in this capacity.”
3 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.