139 W. Va. 487 - Mann v. Peck’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1996
13 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 130 W. Va. 121 - Bennett v. Neff · Rose & Co. v. Brown · 128 W. Va. 290 - Sutton v. Sutton · 136 W. Va. 284 - Holt Motors, Inc. v. Casto · Martin v. Smith
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.
““The competence of a witness to give material testimony may not be challenged for the first time in this court, but must be raised and passed upon in the trial court before it can be made the basis of an assignment of error here. The West Virginia cases holding the contrary which are named in the body of this opinion are, in so far as they conflict herewith, expressly overruled.” Syllabus point 3., Willhide v. Biggs, 118 W. Va. 160 , 188 S.E. 876 (1936).”
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.