150 W. Va. 330 - Boggs v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 195 W. Va. 512 - Gentry v. Mangum (1995), 152 W. Va. 91 - Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. (1968)
80 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 147 W. Va. 484 - Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co. · 147 W. Va. 825 - Walker v. Monongahela Power Company · 144 W. Va. 504 - West Virginia State Bar v. Earley · 149 W. Va. 622 - Bluefield Supply Co. v. Frankel's Appliances, Inc. · Weatherton v. Taylor
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement of Rule 59(b) of the Rules of Civil Procedure that a motion for a new trial shall be served not later than ten days after entry of the judgment is mandatory and jurisdictional. The time required for service of such a motion cannot be extended by the court or by the parties.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““On appeal of a case involving an action covered by the Rules of Civil Procedure, this Court will disregard and regard as harmless any error, defect or irregularity in the proceedings in the trial court which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(b) Time for motion. —A motion for a new trial shall be served not later than 10 days after the entry of the judgment.””
2 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.