163 W. Va. 310 - Cottrell v. Public Finance Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2001
8 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 Fuentes v. Shevin · 161 W. Va. 154 - Waite v. Civil Service Commission · 160 W. Va. 248 - North v. West Virginia Board of Regents · 162 W. Va. 431 - State Ex Rel. McLendon v. Morton · 156 W. Va. 60 - State Ex Rel. Payne v. Walden
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.
“[T]he coral; in dealing with the purposes underlying the poor debtor’s exemption currently embodied in W. Va.Code § 38-8-1 (Cum.Supp.1978) stated that the object of the exemption was “... for the protection and benefit of a poor debtor and his helpless family, to give them the bread of life and a pillow whereon to lay their head, to save them from destitution and absolute want.” Id. at 162-63, 35 S.E. at 993.”
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.