State Ex Rel. Goff v. Merrifield

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \ ‘ \The word shall,’ in the absence of language in the statute showing a contrary intent on the part of the legislature, should be afforded a mandatory connotation.” Point 2 Syllabus, Terry v. Sencindiver, 153 W.Va. 651[, 171 S.E.2d 480 (1969

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Allen
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-01-06· cited 129×
• Daily Gazette Co. v. West Virginia Development Office
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-05-19· cited 78×
• State Ex Rel. Clark v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of West Virginia, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-12-04· cited 36×
• State v. McClain
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-03-29· cited 34×
• Holstein v. Norandex, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-07-17· cited 33×
• Expedited Transportation Systems, Inc. v. Vieweg
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-01-28· cited 30×
• McKinney v. Fairchild International, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-05-14· cited 29×
• Martin v. West Virginia Div. of Labor Contractor Licensing Board
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-02-21· cited 29×
• State v. Arbaugh
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-04-07· cited 28×
• Cline v. Mirandy
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-11-03· cited 23×
• State v. Zain
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-11-05· cited 21×
• Bailey v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-12-17· cited 17×
• State Ex Rel. Williams v. Department of Military Affairs & Public Safety, Division of Corrections
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-10-11· cited 15×
• American Tower Corp. v. Common Council of Beckley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-01-11· cited 14×
• Sniffin v. Cline
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-02-17· cited 13×
• Jan-Care Ambulance Service, Inc. v. Public Service Commission
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-10-15· cited 13×
• Dieter Engineering Services, Inc. v. Parkland Development, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-12-16· cited 13×
• In Re Greg H.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-12-11· cited 11×
• United Companies Lending v. McGehee
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1996-10-11· cited 8×
• Mallory v. Mortgage America, Inc.
  S.D. West Virginia· 1999-09-30· cited 8×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-11-04· cited 513×
• State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-03-03· cited 369×
• State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-29· cited 95×
• Consumer Advocate Division of the Public Service Commission ex rel. Residential and Small Commercial Customers of Hope Gas, Inc. v. Public Service Commission
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-11-03· cited 78×
• State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-07-17· cited 75×
• Terry v. Sencindiver
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1969-12-16· cited 74×
• State v. White
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-12-17· cited 65×
• Prue v. State
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1974-04-02· cited 63×
• Shell v. Bechtold
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-12-18· cited 56×
• State Ex Rel. Fetters v. Hott
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-06-26· cited 53×
• Bounds v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-02-17· cited 36×
• Van Tassel v. Coffman
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-02-27· cited 25×
• Bounds v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COM'R
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-02-17· cited 23×
• Cummins v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1969-02-25· cited 19×
• State Ex Rel. Gillespie v. Kendrick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-04-04· cited 15×
• Faulkner v. District Court of Eighteenth Judicial District
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-03-23· cited 15×
• Kosegi v. Pugliese
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-07-09· cited 14×
• Cummins v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COM'R.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1969-03-21· cited 10×
• State Ex Rel. Coombs v. Barnette
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-04-21· cited 6×
• Citizen Awareness Regarding Education v. Calhoun County Publishing, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-06-06· cited 6×