195 W. Va. 608 - Cox v. Amick’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 196 W. Va. 535 - Banker v. Banker (1996), 204 W. Va. 430 - Wickland v. American Travellers Life Insurance (1998)
175 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 Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission · Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. · Laughlin v. Internal Revenue Service
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To be clear, if there is no 'case' in the constitutional sense of the word, then a circuit court lacks the power to issue a declaratory judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is designed to enable litigants to clarify legal rights and obligations before acting upon them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.