167 W. Va. 848 - Moore v. Starcher’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2016
14 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 165 W. Va. 233 - West Virginia Judicial Inquiry Commission v. Dostert · 163 W. Va. 719 - State Ex Rel . Preissler v. Dostert · 155 W. Va. 808 - State Ex Rel. Dostert v. Riggleman · 162 W. Va. 161 - State Ex Rel. Goodwin v. Cook · 160 W. Va. 294 - State Ex Rel. West Virginia Truck Stops, Inc. v. McHugh
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Politically motivated pleas of public poverty cannot be used to brush aside the fundamental duties of government to the maintenance of civilization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a rule, the disqualification of a prosecuting attorney operates to disqualify his assistants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] fundamental reason for the existence of government is the maintenance of civilization.”
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.