96 W. Va. 685 - State Ex Rel. Simon v. Heatherly’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 1978 · most notably 132 W. Va. 580 - State Ex Rel. Bumgardner v. Mills (1949), 141 W. Va. 328 - Stowers v. Blackburn (1955)
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 Daniel v. Simms · Kirkpatrick v. Deegans · Stafford v. Sheppard · Eureka Pipe Line Co. v. Riggs · Doll v. Bender
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remedy given by statute, which is as speedy and equally as efficacious as mandamus, excludes the latter remedy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The third objection is equally unfounded. It was held in Daniel v. Simms, 49 W.Va. 554 , 39 S.E. 690 , that”
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.