150 W. Va. 474 - Fitzwater v. Spangler’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2010
6 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 146 W. Va. 619 - Petros v. Kellas · 144 W. Va. 178 - State Ex Rel. Shatzer v. Freeport Coal Co. · 117 W. Va. 569 - Wood v. Shrewsbury · 148 W. Va. 362 - Bronson v. Riffe · 114 W. Va. 355 - Scales v. Majestic Steam Laundry
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the most fundamental rule of our system of jurisprudence is that questions of fact are to be determined by a jury and questions of law by a court.... [I]t is just as well established in our law that where there is no evidence to support a verdict, or where it is against the plain preponderance of conflicting evidence, or the governing facts are not in dispute so that reasonable minds could draw but one conclusion therefrom, the questions ... are for judicial determination as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Perhaps the most fundamental rule of our system of jurisprudence is that questions of fact are to be determined by a jury and questions of law by a court.”
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.