215 W. Va. 58 - Shaffer v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 172 W. Va. 743 - Pittsburgh Elevator Co. v. West Virginia Board of Regents · 199 W. Va. 161 - Parkulo v. West Virginia Board of Probation & Parole · 189 W. Va. 230 - Eggleston v. West Virginia Department of Highways · 177 W. Va. 539 - G.M. McCrossin, Inc. v. West Virginia Board of Regents · 154 W. Va. 83 - State Ex Rel. C & D Equipment Company v. Gainer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due to the fact that the Board of Risk and Insurance Management had a statutory duty under W. Va.Code § 29-12-5(a) ... to purchase or contract for insurance for all of the DHHR’s responsibilities, this Court wishes to make clear that the absence of any such coverage may not be used by the DHHR to deprive the appellee [former husband] of a refund of his overpayment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bland v. State
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.