140 W. Va. 889 - Plumley v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2003
14 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 Post v. Carr · Townsend v. Carolina Coach Co. · 128 W. Va. 427 - Baker v. Gaskins · 101 W. Va. 314 - Gainer v. Smith · 122 W. Va. 479 - Winona National Bank v. Fridley
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.
“`An adventitious circumstance which may afford good cause ... is one which is unusual, unexpected, beyond the control of the movant, and free from his neglect.' Syllabus, [in part,] Rollins v. North River Insurance Co., 107 W.Va. 602 [, 149 S.E. 838 (1929)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“held that ... `good cause can only appear by showing ... some ... circumstance beyond the control of the party, and free from neglect on his part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[t]he law strongly favors an opportunity to a defendant to make defense to an action against him.'”
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.