147 W. Va. 168 - Spaur v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably 161 W. Va. 769 - Jividen v. Legg (1978), 147 W. Va. 771 - Thornsbury v. Thornsbury (1963)
25 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 · 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. · 131 W. Va. 736 - American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Ohio Valley Sand Co. · Reilley v. Byard · 127 W. Va. 124 - Webb v. Harrison
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before directing a verdict in a defendant’s favor, every reasonable and legitimate inference favorable to the plaintiff fairly arising from the evidence, considered as a whole, should be entertained by the trial court, and those facts should be assumed as true which the jury may properly find under the evidence.””
3 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.