145 W. Va. 178 - Rollins v. Daraban’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 149 W. Va. 246 - Barnett v. Wolfolk (1965), 151 W. Va. 158 - Morgan v. Price (1966)
54 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 136 W. Va. 59 - Wilson v. Hix · Shrewsbury v. Miller · 141 W. Va. 730 - Ward v. County Court of Raleigh County · 193 W. Va. 378 - State v. Jones · Henry v. Ohio River R.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An Appellate Court will not reverse the judgment of an inferior court unless error affirmatively appear upon the face of the record, and such error will not be presumed, all the presumptions being in favor of the correctness of the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of a bill of exceptions is to exhibit the supposed mistakes of the trial court which do not appear upon the record, and which cannot otherwise be brought before an appellate court for review and correction if erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The judgment of a trial court in setting aside a verdict and awarding a new trial is entitled to peculiar weight and its action in this respect will not be disturbed on appeal unless plainly unwarranted.” Syllabus point 3., id.”
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.