100 W. Va. 688 - Roberts v. Toney’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2004
5 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 Guyandotte Coal Co. v. Virginian Electric & Machine Works · Keyser Canning Co. v. Klots Throwing Co. · Courson v. Parker · Smith v. Norfolk & Western Ry. Co. · 50 W. Va. 514 - Brown v. Gorsuch & Sons
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * and give it the strongest probative force of which it will admit. So long as there is nothing so inherently or otherwise manifestly improbable in the character of the evidence as to justify the court in ignoring it, the credibility of the witnesses is a question for the jury.”
1 later decision 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.