173 W. Va. 149 - Rushman v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 170 W. Va. 771 - Bailey v. SWCC and Eastern Associated Coal Corp. · 156 W. Va. 159 - Jordan v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · Sowder v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMP. COMMISSIONER · 155 W. Va. 889 - Sowder v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · Dunlap v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COM'R
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘This Court will not reverse a finding of fact made by the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board unless it appears from the proof upon which the appeal board acted that the finding is plainly wrong.’ Syl. pt. 2, Jordan v. State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner, 156 W.Va. 159 , 191 S.E.2d 497 (1972), quoting, Syllabus, Dunlap v. State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner, 152 W.Va. 359 , 163 S.E.2d 605 (1968).” Syllabus, Rushman v. Lewis, 173 W.Va. 149 , 313 S.E.2d 426 (1984).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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