180 W. Va. 246 - Crain v. Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 187 W. Va. 596 - Crain v. Bordenkircher (1992), 226 F. Supp. 2d 1 - Cobell v. Norton (2002)
2 district · 41 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 Robinson v. State of California · Alabama v. Pugh · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Ruiz v. Estelle · Gates v. Collier
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has a duty to take such actions as are necessary to protect and guard the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of West Virginia.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“set in motion the procedures that will eliminate the unconstitutional conditions. We can only hope that with the beginning of a new legislative session and the election of a new executive, action will be taken to construct a new facility that will meet constitutional standards.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Although both parties agree that a new facility would correct most of the deficiencies, the Department of Corrections has been unable to act upon the [Special Master’s] recommendation. The Department responded that the funds necessary to build the facility were ‘not available out of appropriations historically available to the Department, and therefore, such a decision cannot be made at a Department level.’ ” 180 W.Va. at 247 , 376 S.E.2d at 141 . (Footnote omitted).”
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.