152 W. Va. 283 - Young v. Duffield’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 194 W. Va. 97 - Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc. (1995), 159 W. Va. 621 - Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1976)
54 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 145 W. Va. 797 - Overton v. Fields · 148 W. Va. 142 - Evans v. Farmer · 146 W. Va. 484 - Graham v. Wriston · 146 W. Va. 156 - Graham v. Crist · 150 W. Va. 393 - Sargent v. Malcomb
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment of a trial court in setting aside a verdict and awarding a new trial is entitled to peculiar weight and its action in this respect will not be disturbed on appeal unless plainly unwarranted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court is more disposed to affirm the action of a trial court in setting aside a verdict and granting a new trial than when such action results in a final judgment denying a new trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial judge is not merely a referee but is vested with discretion in supervising verdicts and preventing miscarriages of justice, with the power and duty to set a jury verdict aside and award a new trial if it is plainly wrong even if it is supported by some evidence, and when a trial judge so acts, his decision, being in discharge of his power and duty to pass upon the weight of the evidence to that limited extent, is entitled to peculiar weight and will not be disturbed on appeal unless clearly unwarranted.”
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.