162 W. Va. 629 - Handley v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2019
23 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 470 (National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Berman v. Parker · Boom Company v. Patterson · Kohl v. United States · Mitchell v. Harmony · Delaware Co v. Town of Morristown
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he expanding social philosophy of the present century (which) has brought in the courts an almost complete abandonment of the 'use by the public’ test ...” (Citation omitted.) This expanding social policy refers in large part to the government-sanctioned redevelopment of urban slums. This expansion of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“For the construction and maintenance of ... electric light, heat and power plants, systems, lines, transmission lines, conduits, stations (including branch, spur and service lines), when for public use[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is well established that prohibition does not lie to correct mere errors and cannot be allowed to usurp the functions of appeal, writ of error, or certiorari. ...”
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.