170 W. Va. 719 - DeVault v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
February 1993
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 171 W. Va. 245 - Cooper v. Gwinn · 161 W. Va. 262 - Woodring v. Whyte · 165 W. Va. 665 - Harrah v. Leverette · 169 W. Va. 531 - Perry v. Barker
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ertainly anything that changes the status quo is not automatically suspect. Nor will this Court by reflex action preserve the status quo if the executive branch has discretionary power to modify it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We appreciate chronic budgetary problems; however, the fact remains that the excuse of lack of funds cannot be permitted to undermine statutory entitlements.”
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.