186 W. Va. 693 - Farley v. Buckalew’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 196 W. Va. 535 - Banker v. Banker (1996), 204 W. Va. 525 - State Ex Rel. ACF Industries, Inc. v. Vieweg (1999)
143 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 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 143 W. Va. 674 - Daurelle v. Traders Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · 126 W. Va. 858 - Laundry Co. v. Dunn Hospital · 179 W. Va. 183 - Matter of Vandelinde · 182 W. Va. 722 - Application of Metheney
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] statute that is ambiguous must be construed before it can be applied.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he primary object in construing a statute is to ascertain and give effect to the intent of the Legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Statutes which relate to the same subject matter should be read and applied together so that the Legislature’s intention can be gathered from the whole of the enactments.’ Syllabus Point 3, Smith v. State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner, 159 W.Va. 108 , 219 S.E.2d 361 (1975).””
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.