156 W. Va. 562 - Hall v. Protan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably 174 W. Va. 139 - Allen v. State of West Virginia Human Rights Commission (1984), Walls v. Miller (1978)
25 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 153 W. Va. 538 - State Ex Rel. Kucera v. City of Wheeling · 149 W. Va. 773 - State Ex Rel. Damron v. Ferrell · State Ex Rel. Jones v. City of Nashville · 152 W. Va. 76 - State Ex Rel. Hercules Tire & Rubber Supply Co. v. Gore · 155 W. Va. 172 - Fairlawns Homes, Inc. v. City of Morgantown
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is obvious that the lack of rules and regulations concerning the administering of an examination might well prejudice an applicant who may or may not be placed in peril by having to respond ‘in the blind’ to examination procedures. The civil service commission on the other hand contends that the examination was obtained from the state civil service commission and is the same as administered throughout the State by county civil service commissions and that they in good faith attempted to comply with the provisions of the Act. Whether or not this is so, and whether or not the relators have been prejudiced by the procedures, should be fully developed at an evidentiary hearing.” [ 156 W. Va. at 567-568 , 195 S.E.2d 380 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A writ of mandamus will not issue unless three elements coexist (1) a clear legal right in the petitioner to the relief sought; (2) a legal duty on the part of the respondent to do the thing which the petitioner seeks to compel; and (3) the absence of another adequate remedy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGrady v. Callaghan
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.