173 W. Va. 526 - White v. Manchin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 184 W. Va. 82 - Rodgers v. Rodgers (1990), 176 W. Va. 713 - Rogers v. Hechler (1986)
2 federal appellate · 53 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 Dunn v. Blumstein · Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County · Carrington v. Rash · Mark Trail Camp Grounds, Inc. v. Field Enterprises, Inc. · Livingston v. Texas
Most-quoted passages
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““2. The extraordinary remedy of mandamus, though on the law side of the court, is limited as to time by the equitable doctrine of laches; and the burden of showing sufficient excuse for what appears from the record to be an unreasonable delay in the assertion of a clear legal right through the remedy of mandamus rests upon the person asserting such right. “3. The writ of mandamus will be refused when the petitioner has unreasonably delayed his application for such writ and by reason of the delay the rights of the defendant or innocent third parties will be prejudiced by the issuance of the writ.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The eligibility of a candidate for an elective office may be determined in a proceeding in mandamus and, upon a determination therein that a candidate is ineligible to be elected to or to hold the office for which he seeks nomination or election, a writ of mandamus will issue directing the board of ballot commissioners to strike or omit such candidate’s name from the primary or general election ballot.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Reading West Virginia Constitution art. VI, § 12, which provides that ‘No person shall be a senator ... who has not for one year next preceding his election, been a resident of the district or county from which he is elected,’ in pari materia with West Virginia Constitution art. VI, § 4, which provides that ‘where the [senatorial] district is composed of more than one county, both [senators] shall not be chosen from the same county,’ it is plain and unambiguous that senators representing senatorial districts composed of more than one county must be residents of both the county and the district from which they are elected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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