179 W. Va. 482 - Cline v. Roark’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · 143 W. Va. 522 - Sands v. Security Trust Company · 161 W. Va. 568 - Shackleford v. Catlett · 174 W. Va. 506 - Duquesne Light Co. v. State Tax Dept. · 154 W. Va. 759 - In Re Appeal of Prezkop
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be followed when a police department removes, discharges, suspends, or reduces the rank or pay of a police officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.