155 W. Va. 475 - Wilkinson v. Searls’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 161 W. Va. 603 - John W. Lodge Distributing Co. v. Texaco, Inc. (1978), 213 W. Va. 80 - Findley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2003)
68 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 131 W. Va. 88 - Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. v. Gilbert · 155 W. Va. 103 - Mowery v. Hitt · 148 W. Va. 263 - State Ex Rel. Dandy v. Thompson · 148 W. Va. 515 - Lewis v. Dils Motor Company · 147 W. Va. 704 - State Ex Rel. Coral Pools, Inc. v. Knapp
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for summary judgment should be granted if the pleadings, exhibits and discovery depositions upon which the motion is submitted for decision disclose that the case involves no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the party who made the motion is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage““Except in cases of fraud or mistake, parol evidence can not be admitted to vary, contradict, add to or explain the terms of a complete and unambiguous lease, by proving that the agreement of the parties was different from what it appears upon the face of the lease.””
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.