183 W. Va. 184 - Mangum v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2017
24 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 Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner · 174 W. Va. 494 - Committee on Legal Ethics of West Virginia State Bar v. Blair · 149 W. Va. 461 - Guine v. Civil Service Commission · 187 W. Va. 136 - State v. Gill · Rice v. United States
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.
““W.Va.Code, 7-14-17 (1981), requires that dismissal of a deputy sheriff covered by civil service be for just cause, which means misconduct of a substantial nature directly affecting the rights and interests of the public, rather than upon trivial or inconsequential matters, or mere technical violations of statute or official duty without a wrongful intention.’ Syllabus point 2, Mangum v. Lambert, [183] W.Va. [184], 394 S.E.2d 879 (1990).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Seriously wrongful conduct by a civil service employee can lead to dismissal even if it is not a technical violation of any statute. The test is not whether the conduct breaks a specific law, but rather whether it is potentially damaging to the rights and interests of the public.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[j]ust cause has been defined as a substantial cause 'which specially relates to and affects the administration of the office, and must be restricted to something of a substantial nature directly affecting the rights and interest[s] of the public. An officer should not be removed from office for matters which are trivial, inconsequential, or hypothetical, or for mere technical violations of statute or official duty without wrongful intention.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.