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← 63 WVA 254 - State v. Stepp

State v. Stepp’s Empirical Analysis

1907

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Buster v. Holland · Ex parte Doyle · Miller v. Cox · Fulmer Coal Co. v. Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The statute does use the word 'may,' which is usually only permissive or discretionary.”
    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.