179 W. Va. 129 - Hechler v. McCuskey’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2001
18 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 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey · 138 W. Va. 660 - Vest v. Cobb · 148 W. Va. 239 - Robertson v. Hatcher · 137 W. Va. 864 - Pond Creek Pocahontas Co. v. Alexander
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a digest or summary of the budget bill containing detailed information similar to that included in the budget document submitted to the Legislature by the governor but including amendments of legislative committees, and as finally enacted by the Legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he Legislature uses this [Budget] Digest as its detailed explanation concerning the manner in which appropriations are to be expended”
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.