186 W. Va. 452 - Benedict v. Polan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
November 1994
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 181 W. Va. 779 - Dadisman v. Moore · 148 W. Va. 239 - Robertson v. Hatcher · State ex rel. Key v. Bond · 156 W. Va. 154 - State Ex Rel. Davis v. Oakley
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental to our constitutional law and we affirm that the Legislature cannot amend general substantive statutes with budgetary language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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