145 W. Va. 250 - Shears v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably 146 W. Va. 392 - State Ex Rel. Cox v. Boles (1961), State v. Boles (1964)
28 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 Pennsylvania v. Budd Co. · Coal & Coke Ry. Co. v. Conley · 135 W. Va. 90 - Dye v. Skeen · 142 W. Va. 830 - State Ex Rel. Browning v. Tucker · 128 W. Va. 456 - State Ex Rel. McLaughlin v. Morris
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a judgment is susceptible of two interpretations, that one will be adopted which renders it the more reasonable, effective and conclusive, and which makes the judgment harmonize with the facts and law of the case and be such as ought to have been rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grisler v. Michels
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.