178 W. Va. 556 - Bolton v. Bechtold’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[i]n reviewing the judgment of the lower court this Court does not accord special weight to the lower court’s conclusions of law, and will reverse the judgment below when it is based on an incorrect conclusion of law.” Syllabus Point 1, Burks v. McNeel, 164 W.Va. 654 , 264 S.E.2d 651 (1980).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 201 W. Va. 108 - Walker v. West Virginia Ethics Commission.