170 W. Va. 779 - Manchin v. Browning’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 194 W. Va. 770 - State Ex Rel. McGraw v. Scott Runyan Pontiac-Buick, Inc. (1995), Suarez Corporation Industries v. Darrell V. Mcgraw, Jr. (2000)
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1651
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Ray v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 29 Cal. 3d 150 - People Ex Rel. Deukmejian v. Brown · 65 Ill. 2d 485 - People Ex Rel. Scott v. Briceland · 83 Wash. 2d 797 - State v. O'CONNELL
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specified by the constitution and by rules of law prescribed pursuant thereto.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall appear in any cause in which the state is interested that is pending in any other court in the state, on the written request of the governor, and when such appearance is entered he shall take charge of and have control of such cause.”
2 later decisions 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.