187 W. Va. 145 - Butler v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Hamling v. United States · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Pope v. Illinois
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The county commissions, through their clerks, shall have the custody of all deeds.... They shall also, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, have the superintendence and administration of the internal police and fiscal affairs of their counties, including the establishment and regulation of roads ... with authority to lay and disburse the county levies: Provided, That no license for the sale of intoxicating liquors in any incorporated [municipality] shall be granted without the consent of the municipal authorities thereof.... Until otherwise prescribed by law, they shall, in all cases of contest, be the judge of the election, qualification and returns of their own members ... subject to such regulations ... as may be prescribed by law. Such commissions may exercise such other powers, and perform such other duties, not of a judicial nature, as may be prescribed by law. ...”
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.