174 W. Va. 167 - Pauley v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2017
20 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 162 W. Va. 672 - Pauley v. Kelly · 160 W. Va. 172 - State Ex Rel . Harris v. Calendine · 138 W. Va. 660 - Vest v. Cobb · 157 W. Va. 100 - State Ex Rel. Brotherton v. Blankenship · 174 W. Va. 8 - Bailey v. Truby
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e held in syllabus point 3 of Pauley v. Kelly, supra: “The mandatory requirements of ‘a thorough and efficient system of free schools’ found in Article XII, Section 1 of the West Constitution, make education a fundamental, constitutional right in this State.” See also Potter v. Miller, W. Va., 168 W.Va. 601 , 287 S.E.2d 163 (1981). “Our Constitution manifests, throughout, the people’s clear mandate to the Legislature, that public education is a prime function of our State government. We must not allow that command to be unheeded.” Pauley v. Kelly, supra, 255 S.E.2d at 884 (emphasis in original). See also Detch v. Board of Education of County of Greenbrier, 145 W.Va. 722 , 117 S.E.2d 138 (1960); State ex rel Trent v. Sims, 138 W.Va. 244 , 77 S.E.2d 122 (1953).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The West Virginia Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools, pursuant to their general supervisory powers over education in West Virginia under W.Va.Const. art. XII, § 2, and their specific duties to establish, implement and enforce high quality educational standards for all facets of education under the provisions of Chapter 18 of the West Virginia Code, have a duty to ensure the complete executive delivery and maintenance of a ‘thorough and efficient system of free schools’ in West Virginia as that system is embodied in A Master Plan for Public Education [.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘adequately reflects the will of the people, through the basic law enacted by them, that a thorough and efficient system of free schools is of paramount importance in a free society and that neither the Legislature nor the executive branch of government may perform any act which would result in the elimination of this safeguard.’ ” Pauley v. Bailey, 174 W.Va. 167, 174 , 324 S.E.2d 128, 134-35 , quoting State ex rel. Brotherton v. Blankenship, 157 W.Va. at 125, 207 S.E.2d at 436.”
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.