157 W. Va. 1001 - State v. Grinstead’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Gill (1992), 162 W. Va. 63 - State v. Dunn (1978)
3 federal appellate · 33 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. 636 - State Ex Rel. West Virginia Housing Development Fund v. Copenhaver · 151 W. Va. 628 - Willis v. O'BRIEN · 158 W. Va. 111 - State v. Flinn · 154 W. Va. 431 - State Ex Rel. Myers v. Wood · 130 W. Va. 246 - State v. Harrison
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has passed upon and recognized the right of the Legislature to delegate its police powers to regulate certain matters to boards and commissions under standards proscribed in the statute or inherent in the subject matter, and wider latitude is given to such delegation of power where public health, morals, safely and welfare are involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]hile a statute may be sufficiently definite in specifying criminal acts so as to provide notice of proscribed conduct, it may be invalid as incomplete if it is left to a body other than the Legislature to determine without benefit of legislative standards what shall and shall not be an infringement of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““... any drug which, under the regulations promulgated in accordance with the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of June, twenty-five, one thousand nine hundred thirty-eight, or any amendment thereto, is designated as dangerous or habit-forming: ...” W.Va.Code § 16-8B-l(l)(d) (emphasis added).”
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.