179 W. Va. 600 - Cogar v. Faerber’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 1211
Relies on Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · Nollan v. California Coastal Commission · Goldblatt v. Town of Hempstead · 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · National Wildlife Federation v. Hodel
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred seventy-seven, and subject to valid existing rights, no surface mining operations, except those which existed on that date, shall be permitted: ******”
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.