217 W. Va. 722 - Tillis v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 W. Va. 138 - Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L. · 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 195 W. Va. 573 - Appalachian Power Co. v. State Tax Department · 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly · 201 W. Va. 108 - Walker v. West Virginia Ethics Commission.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the appellate court may examine the record in the review of election contests in order to reach an independent conclusion, it merely determines whether the conclusions of law are warranted by the findings of fact, and it will not, as a general rule, disturb findings of fact on conflicting evidence unless such findings are manifestly wrong or against the weight of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he general rule of statutory construction requires that a specific statute be given precedence over a general statute relating to the same subject matter where the two cannot be reconciled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Typically, when two statutes govern a particular scenario, one being specific and one being general, the specific provision prevails.”
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.