174 W. Va. 8 - Bailey v. Truby’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 174 W. Va. 139 - Allen v. State of West Virginia Human Rights Commission (1984), Spring Branch I.S.D. v. Stamos (1985)
1 district · 57 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 153 W. Va. 538 - State Ex Rel. Kucera v. City of Wheeling · 162 W. Va. 672 - Pauley v. Kelly · Walsh v. Louisiana High School Athletic Ass'n · 153 W. Va. 636 - State Ex Rel. West Virginia Housing Development Fund v. Copenhaver · Haas v. South Bend Community School Corporation
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““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 [.]””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The county boards of education are hereby granted and shall exercise the control, supervision and regulation of all interscholastic athletic events, and other extracurricular activities of the students in public secondary schools, and of said schools of their respective counties. The county board of education may delegate such control, supervision and regulation of interscholastic athletic events and band activities to the “West Virginia secondary school activities commission,' which is hereby established. The West Virginia secondary school activities commission shall be composed of the principals, or their representatives, of those secondary schools whose county boards of education have certified in writing to the state superintendent of schools that they have elected to delegate the control, supervision and regulation of their interscholastic athletic events and band activities of the students in the public secondary schools in their respective counties to said commission. The West Virginia secondary school activities commission is hereby empowered to exercise the control, supervision and regulation of interscholastic athletic events and band activities of secondary schools, delegated to it pursuant to this section.... The West Virginia secondary school activities commission, may, with the consent of the state board of education, incorporate under the name of West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission, Inc.,’ as a nonprofit, nonstock corporation under the provisio”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[C]onstitutional grants of authority and the provision of fundamental safeguards cannot be derogated or eliminated by legislative or executive action. Therefore, any statutory provision that interferes with the State Board of Education’s ‘general supervision of the free schools of the State’ under article XII, § 2 of the West Virginia Constitution is void.” 174 W.Va. at 18 , 321 S.E.2d at 312 .”
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.