123 W. Va. 265 - Ebbert v. Bouchelle’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 199 W. Va. 12 - State Ex Rel. Hoover v. Berger (1997), 131 W. Va. 442 - State v. Comp. Com'r. (1948)
50 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 American Car & Foundry Co. v. Alexandria Water Co. · Moats v. Rymer · Fleshman v. McWhorter
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There must be: "(a) A description of the writing, the production of which is sought, sufficient to identify it. "(b) A showing of the relevance and materiality of its contents to the matters in controversy in the pending case. "(c) The fact that the proof is not otherwise practically available." [5]”
3 later decisions 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.