167 W. Va. 487 - Thomas v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
states following
November 2006
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · Dandridge v. Williams · Weinberger v. Salfi · Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur · Vlandis v. Kline
Most-quoted passages
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“Our policy is to uphold legislative intent rather than to defeat it, and if there is any reasonable way to construe legislation as constitutional, we will so construe it. State ex rel. City of Charleston v. Coghill, 156 W.Va. 877 , 207 S.E.2d 113 (1973); Farley v. Graney, 146 W.Va. 22 , 119 S.E.2d 833 (1961).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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