133 W. Va. 786 - Wright v. Lantz’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1991
2 federal appellate · 10 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 129 W. Va. 302 - Van Hunter v. Beckley Newspapers Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘A suit, action or proceeding, prosecuted in good faith, and on advice of reputable counsel obtained after a fair and accurate disclosure to counsel of the facts on which advice is sought, may not serve as the basis of an action for malicious prosecution.’ Hunter v. Beckley Newspapers Corp., 129 W.Va. 302 , Pt. 5 Syl. [ 40 S.E.2d 332 ]; Wright v. Lantz, 133 W.Va. 786 , Pt. 2 Syl. [ 58 S.E.2d 123 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[a]bsence of a showing of either [want of probable cause or malice] is fatal to the plaintiff's claim for recovery.'”
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.