174 W. Va. 639 - Mizell v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2019
7 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 Rosenberg v. United States · 166 W. Va. 675 - Kisamore v. Rutledge · 138 W. Va. 116 - State Ex Rel. Hinkle v. Skeen · Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. v. Employment Security Administration · 158 W. Va. 229 - In Re Tax Assessments Against Pocahontas Land Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Findings of fact by the Board of Review of the West Virginia Department of Employment Security, in an unemployment compensation case, should not be set aside unless such findings are plainly wrong; however, the plainly wrong doctrine does not apply to conclusions of law by the Board of Review.”
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.