153 W. Va. 143 - Fortner v. Napier’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably 176 W. Va. 492 - Roberts v. Stevens Clinic Hospital, Inc. (1986), Jordan v. Bero (1974)
29 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 132 W. Va. 66 - French v. Sinkford · 145 W. Va. 696 - Earl T. Browder, Inc. v. County Court of Webster County · 146 W. Va. 484 - Graham v. Wriston · 125 W. Va. 722 - Bragg v. C. I. Whitten Transfer Co. · 151 W. Va. 322 - Smith v. Edward M. Rude Carrier Corp.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in this action in view of the fact that each of the prepared verdicts was signed by the jury foreman, all of the members of the jury were asked if such was their verdict, all answered in the affirmative and, inasmuch as this procedure took place before the jury was discharged, particularly in view of the fact that counsel for the defendant made no objection to the procedure followed by the able trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The general rule is that no party may assign as error the giving of or the refusal to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the arguments to the jury are begun, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objections and ordinarily this Court, in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, will consider only objections which have been made in this manner.””
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.