150 W. Va. 96 - Lane v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 194 W. Va. 3 - State v. Miller (1995), 171 W. Va. 584 - Conley v. Spillers (1983)
3 federal appellate · 46 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · 144 W. Va. 583 - In Re Settlement of the Estate of McIntosh · Sayre's v. Harpold · McCoy v. McCoy · 148 W. Va. 130 - State Ex Rel. Queen v. Sawyers
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But where the causes of action are not the same, the parties being identical or in privity, the bar extends to only those matters which were actually litigated in the former proceeding, as distinguished from those matters that might or could have been litigated therein, and arises by way of estoppel rather than by way of strict res adjudicata.” Lane v. Williams, 150 W.Va. 96, 100 , 144 S.E.2d 234, 236 (1965).”
5 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.