State ex rel. Sandy v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 153 W. Va. 538 - State Ex Rel. Kucera v. City of Wheeling · Mitchell v. United States · 159 W. Va. 513 - State Ex Rel. Maloney v. McCartney · 173 W. Va. 526 - White v. Manchin · 148 W. Va. 535 - State Ex Rel. Summerfield v. Maxwell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although this case was brought and granted as a petition for a writ of prohibition, we choose to treat it as a writ of mandamus action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.