146 W. Va. 619 - Petros v. Kellas’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York (1963), 148 W. Va. 380 - Hatten v. Mason Realty Company (1964)
6 federal appellate · 89 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 Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Pierce v. Ford Motor Co. · 130 W. Va. 430 - State Ex Rel. Cashman v. Sims · 146 W. Va. 156 - Graham v. Crist · 130 W. Va. 362 - Adkins v. Aetna Life Insurance
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The summary judgment procedure provided by Rule 56 of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure does not infringe the constitutional right of a party to a trial by jury; it is not a substitute for a trial or a trial either by a jury or by the court of an issue of fact, but is a determination that, as a matter of law, there is no issue of fact to be tried.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * to resist a motion for summary judgment the party against whom it is made must present some evidence to indicate that the facts are in dispute when the evidence of the moving party shows no disputed facts, and that the mere contention that the issue is disputable is not sufficient.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions 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.