143 W. Va. 669 - Coleman v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1993
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 40 W. Va. 169 - Crothers' Adm'r v. Crothers · Hurst's Adm'r v. Hite · Sayre v. Woodyard · 123 W. Va. 90 - Sperry v. Clark · Clark v. Gruber
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test as to whether appellant is an interested party within the meaning of [W.Va.Code, 57-3-1,] is not whether she may be interested in the question in issue, or may entertain wishes on the subject, or may even have occasion to test the same question in a future suit, but whether the proceeding can be used for evidence in some pending or future suit. Such person must have an interest to be affected by the result of the suit or by the force of the adjudication. This was the common law rule, which still prevails in this State.” (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions 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.