138 W. Va. 437 - Brewer v. Appalachian Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 31 state decisions

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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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As a corollary to the foregoing it follows that it then and there became the duty of the trial court in the conduct of this important case to require the jury to retire for the purpose of arriving at and returning a proper verdict; and in doing so the trial court ex necessitate had the duty, as it did, to tell the jury why the court had rejected its verdict, and its instructions in that regard were clear, and properly informed the jury as to its duty. By this oral instruction the court told the jury that ‘If you find for the plaintiff against any one or more of the four defendants, you cannot divide the amount of your verdict between the defendants against whom you find, but must find one sum against all of those against whom you find.’” Id,., at 448.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 158 W. Va. 741 - Long v. City of Weirton · Carter v. Jones

2. “Agency by representation or estoppel, sometimes designated as `apparent agency', involves a case in which there may be no agency in fact, but where the principal or employer holds out or represents a person to be his agent or employee, and a third party or parties rely thereon, in which case the person making the representation is estopped to deny the agency.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 215 W. Va. 765 - Burless v. West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc.