158 W. Va. 87 - Vandevender v. Cassell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1995
9 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. 714 - Crockett v. Andrews · Bond v. Ann Arbor School District · Granger v. Cascade County School District No. 1 · 154 W. Va. 253 - State Ex Rel. Browning v. Blankenship · 155 W. Va. 619 - Foster v. Cooper
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature shall provide by general law, for a thorough and efficient system of free schools.” Constitution, Article XII, Section 1.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““It is clear to me [us], however, that where state constitutions contain language providing for free schools, such as Article XII, Section 1 of the West Virginia Constitution, that this means free schools for students of all economic classes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.