190 W. Va. 202 - Williams v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2015
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Quinn v. Syracuse Model Neighborhood Corp. · Gemelli v. Pennsylvania
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unfortunately all too common for government manuals, handbooks, and in-house publications to contain statements that were not meant or are not wholly reliable. If they go counter to governing statutes. ..., they do not bind the government, and persons relying on them do so at their peril. (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“we found that an at-will removal power is implied when the employer has the power of appointment and the office carries no fixed term. We also recognized that the power to remove could be limited by constitutional or statutory provisions .... Thus, Archer would permit the removal of an assistant attorney general even if the word “pleasure” was not found in W.Va.Code, 5-3-3, because this section authorizes the Attorney General to appoint assistant attorneys general and provides no set term for their employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where a statute conferring the power to appoint fixes no definite term of office, but provides that the tenure shall be at the pleasure of the appointing body, the implied power to remove such appointee may be exercised at its discretion, and cannot be contracted away so as to bind the appointing body to retain him in such position for a definite, fixed period.” Syllabus Point 4, Barbor v. County Court, 85 W.Va. 359 , 101 S.E. 721 (1920).”
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.