186 W. Va. 421 - Smith v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2014
10 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 172 W. Va. 743 - Pittsburgh Elevator Co. v. West Virginia Board of Regents · 161 W. Va. 30 - Winter Ex Rel. Winter v. MacQueen · 173 W. Va. 133 - State Ex Rel. Hamstead v. Dostert · 162 W. Va. 779 - Shobe v. Latimer · 176 W. Va. 123 - State Ex Rel. Ayers v. Cline
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Prohibition will lie to prohibit a judge from exceeding his legitimate powers.' Syllabus Point 2, State ex rel. Winter v. MacQueen, 161 W.Va. 30 , 239 S.E.2d 660 (1977).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Actions wherein a state agency or official is named, whether as principal party or third-party defendant, may be brought only in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County."”
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.