143 W. Va. 280 - Hutchinson v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2003
2 district · 18 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 Head v. Hargrave · 129 W. Va. 267 - Divita v. Atlantic Trucking Co. · 141 W. Va. 435 - Bower v. Brannon · Cogdell v. Wilmington & Weldon Railroad · 117 W. Va. 569 - Wood v. Shrewsbury
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In setting aside a non-suit and reinstating the case upon the trial docket under chap. 127, sec. 11, Code, the trial court may consider the evidence given up to the time of the non-suit, and his rulings in the case, for ascertaining good cause for granting the motion to set aside and reinstate, and his action in so doing will not be disturbed by the appellate court unless it is shown that his discretion in that regard has been abused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“One can not refuse to prosecute or defend and then ask to do so without showing why he thus acts so inconsistently.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.