160 W. Va. 65 - Wooddell v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 177 W. Va. 145 - Dillon v. Bd. of Educ. of County of Wyoming (1986), 174 W. Va. 532 - Manchin v. Dunfee (1984)
50 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 Vaca v. Sipes · 123 W. Va. 637 - Miners in General Group v. Hix · State ex rel. Hardesty v. Aracoma—Chief Logan No. 4523 · 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 136 W. Va. 59 - Wilson v. Hix
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Effect should be given to the spirit, purpose and intent of the lawmakers without limiting the interpretation in such a manner as to defeat the underlying purpose of the statute; ... Each word of a statute should be given some effect and a statute must be construed in accordance with the import of its language; ... Undefined words and terms used in a legislative enactment will be given their common, ordinary and accepted meaning;..." [ 230 S.E.2d at 469 ]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exemption is strictly construed against the person claiming the exemption.”
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.