162 W. Va. 779 - Shobe v. Latimer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 213 W. Va. 80 - Findley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2003), 164 W. Va. 94 - Tug Valley Recovery Center, Inc. v. Mingo County Commission (1979)
46 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 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Sierra Club v. Morton · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP)
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The following proceedings shall be brought and prosecuted only in the circuit court of Kanawha County: (1) Any suit in which the governor, any other state officer, or a state agency is made a party defendant, except as garnishee or suggestee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a state officer is properly made a party defendant in a civil action, venue is controlled and determined by the law embodied in W.Va. Code § 14-2-2 [1974]. If venue is properly laid against the state officer under this provision, then venue as to other defendants is also proper under traditional venue-giving defendant principles. Taylor v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and State Road Commission, 138 W.Va. 313 , 75 S.E.2d 858 (1953).” 162 W.Va. at 793 , 253 S.E.2d at 62 . (Footnote omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When significant interests are directly injured or adversely affected by governmental action, a person so injured has standing under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, W.Va.Code § 55-13-1 et seq. [1941] to obtain a declaration of rights, status, or other legal relations.”
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.