Marra v. Zink’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 175 W. Va. 525 - State Ex Rel. Cohen v. Manchin (1985), 170 W. Va. 593 - Smith v. W. Va. State Board of Education (1982)
26 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Turner v. Fouche · Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co. · 160 W. Va. 172 - State Ex Rel . Harris v. Calendine · 15 Cal. 3d 461 - Johnson v. Hamilton
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Although W. Va. Const., art. 4 § 8 provides authority for the Legislature to establish by general law ‘terms of office, powers, duties, and compensation of all public officers and agents, and the manner in which they shall be elected ...’ that constitutional section does not provide for the establishment of qualifications. * * * [Thus, we] hold that W.Va. Const., art. 4 § 4 is the exclusive constitutional authority for the establishment of qualifications for municipal office and any qualifications in excess of that provision cannot be created by general law under authority of W.Va. Const., art. 4 § 8 nor under the Legislature’s plenary law making power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]ince there is no direct authority in our Constitution for the Legislature to establish qualifications for office in excess of those imposed by W.Va. Const., art. 4 § 4, we find qualifications other than those in art. 4 § 4 unconstitutional by its very terms and under our own equal protection ... [due process and freedom of speech and assembly] provisions.”
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.