170 W. Va. 300 - Donaldson v. Gainer’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 13 U.S.C. § 141
Relies on 161 W. Va. 568 - Shackleford v. Catlett · 166 W. Va. 743 - State Ex Rel. Skinner v. Dostert · 158 W. Va. 267 - Cimino v. Board of Ed. of County of Marion · 162 W. Va. 297 - State v. Mason · 147 W. Va. 841 - State Ex Rel. County Court of Cabell County v. Battle
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a statutory classification based on population bears no rational relationship to the purposes of the statute, such classification is arbitrary, and violates the constitutional guaranty of equal protection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“time spent `on-call' is not time spent in the performance of a magistrate's judicial function,”
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.