128 W. Va. 686 - Stealey v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1962
15 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 Kuhn v. Brownfield · Western M. & M. Co. v. Virginia Cannel Coal Co. · Shroyer v. Nickell · Edgell v. Smith · Springer v. Young
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and, notwithstanding such appearance, in any action, suit, motion or other proceeding, the court, if in its opinion substantial justice will be promoted thereby, may, at any time before final judgment or decree, and upon such terms as it may deem just, permit any pleading to be amended, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“great liberality in permitting amendments to pleadings”
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.