172 W. Va. 329 - State Ex Rel. Steele v. Kopp’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2018
21 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 171 W. Va. 245 - Cooper v. Gwinn · 167 W. Va. 155 - State Ex Rel. Barker v. Manchin · 157 W. Va. 100 - State Ex Rel. Brotherton v. Blankenship · 158 W. Va. 390 - State Ex Rel. Brotherton v. Blankenship · McConaughy v. Secretary of State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he role of this Court is vital to the preservation of the constitutional separation of powers of government where that separation, delicate under normal conditions, is jeopardized by the usurpatory actions of the executive or legislative branches of government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be strictly construed and closely followed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[IJnasmuch as the regulation of nonintoxicating beer in this State is “essentially for legislative determination,” Hinebaugh [v. James, 119 W.Va. 162 , 192 S.E. 177 (1937) ], and the legislature chose to regulate nonintoxieating beer through the creation of the office of the nonintoxicating beer commissioner under “The Nonintoxicating Beer Act,” the governor had a duty to submit a budget to the legislature under which the office of the commissioner could continue operations as prescribed by law. [Footnote omitted].”
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.