166 W. Va. 572 - State Ex Rel. McCamic v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
July 1996
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Procunier v. Martinez · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle
Most-quoted passages
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“In West Virginia, we have an explicit provision regarding access to our courts in Article III, Section 17 of our Constitution: ‘The courts of this State shall be open and every person, for an injury done to him, in his person, property or reputation shall have remedy by due course of law....’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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