164 W. Va. 595 - Scott v. Ernest’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 154 W. Va. 759 - In Re Appeal of Prezkop · 154 W. Va. 688 - Billings v. Civil Service Commission · 161 W. Va. 377 - City of Logan v. Dingess · 154 W. Va. 696 - Yates v. Civil Service Commission · 160 W. Va. 762 - Snyder v. Civil Service Commission
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 behavior which a police officer exhibits toward the public is obviously related to, and affects, the administration of his office. The right of individuals in the custody of public officers to be protected against acts of unjustified violence is of a sufficiently substantial nature to justify the dismissal of the public employee who violates that right.” [citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.