137 W. Va. 883 - State Ex Rel. Alderson v. Holbert’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1993
6 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 135 W. Va. 528 - Meisel v. Tri-State Airport Authority · 134 W. Va. 278 - State Ex Rel. Dyer v. Sims · Louisville Bridge Co. v. L. & N. R. R. · Hart v. Baltimore & O. R. R. · Groves v. County Court of Grant County
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is sufficient if the party satisfied the court that, after due and diligent search upon his part, the instrument cannot, due to its loss or destruction, be produced upon the trial. All that one is expected to show is that he has in good faith exhausted, in a reasonable degree, all the sources of information and means of discovery which the nature of the case would naturally suggest and which were accessible to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Belknap v. Cline
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.