177 W. Va. 173 - DePond v. Gainer’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie · United States v. Will · 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 163 W. Va. 332 - Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co. · 171 W. Va. 445 - Nelson v. West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Board
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ministerial act or duty is one which is to be performed under a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, and without regard to or exercise of the judgment of the one doing it upon the propriety of the act’s being done.” Syl. pt. 2, Marcum v. Ballot Commissioners, 42 W.Va. 263 , 26 S.E. 281 (1896).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a violation of the trust reposed in us by the people of the State of West Virginia. This case [ Dostert ] has no place in the jurisprudence of our State or our nation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.