177 W. Va. 472 - Boyd v. Merritt’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 204 W. Va. 525 - State Ex Rel. ACF Industries, Inc. v. Vieweg (1999), 196 W. Va. 726 - State Ex Rel. Blankenship v. Richardson (1996)
37 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 · 172 W. Va. 457 - Meadows v. Lewis · 163 W. Va. 583 - Pnakovich v. SWCC · Sizemore v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMP. COM'R · 117 W. Va. 55 - Rasmus v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his Court does not sit as a superlegislature, commissioned to pass upon the political, social, economic, or scientific merits of statutes pertaining to proper subjects of legislation. It is the duty of the legislature to consider facts, establish policy, and embody that policy in legislation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A writ of mandamus will not issue unless three elements coexist — (1) a clear legal right in the petitioner to the relief sought; (2) a legal duty on the part of respondent to do the thing which the petitioner seeks to compel; and (3) the absence of another adequate remedy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right to workers' compensation benefits is wholly a creature of statute”
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.