State ex rel. Key v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 154 W. Va. 397 - State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood (1970), 190 W. Va. 711 - Teter v. Old Colony Co. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 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 Fergus v. Russel · People ex rel. Throop v. Langdon · 57 Ohio St. 385 - McGrath v. Cowen · Sibley v. State · State Tax Commission v. Harrington
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * As a general rule, it may be stated that a position is a public office when it is created by law, with duties cast on the incumbent which involve an exercise of some portion of the sovereign power and in the performance of which the public is concerned, and which are continuing in their nature and not occasional or intermittent. But one who merely performs the duties required of him by persons employing him under an express or implied contract, though such persons themselves be public officers, and though the employment be in or about public work or business, is a mere employee.”
2 later decisions 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.