152 W. Va. 688 - State Road Commission v. Bowling’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably 173 W. Va. 75 - McAllister v. Weirton Hospital Co. (1983), 155 W. Va. 397 - Lambert v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (1971)
34 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 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley · 148 W. Va. 742 - State Road Commission v. Ferguson · 145 W. Va. 696 - Earl T. Browder, Inc. v. County Court of Webster County · 150 W. Va. 330 - Boggs v. Settle · 147 W. Va. 352 - Payne v. Kinder
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Instructions must be read as a whole, and if, when so read, it is apparent they could not have misled the jury, the verdict will not be disturbed, though one of said instructions which is not a binding instruction may have been susceptible of a doubtful construction while standing alone.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The action of the trial court in setting aside a verdict for the plaintiff and awarding the defendant a new trial will be reversed by this Court where it appears that the case, as a whole, was fairly tried and no error prejudicial to the defendant was committed therein."”
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.