167 W. Va. 362 - Devon Corp. v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Worthen Co Board of Com'rs of Street Improvement Dist No 513 of Little Rock Ark v. Kavanaugh · Edgar Levy Leasing Co v. Siegel 810 West End Ave · Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. McCue · Oshkosh Waterworks Co. v. Oshkosh
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A law is not retroactive merely because part of the factual situation to which it is applied occurred prior to its enactment; only when it operates upon transactions which have been completed or upon rights which have been acquired or upon obligations which have existed prior to its passage can it be considered to be retroactive in application.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No State shall ... pass any ... Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“law impairing the obligation of a contract,”
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.