155 W. Va. 875 - McDaniel v. Romano’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 157 W. Va. 778 - Toler v. Shelton (1974), 163 W. Va. 464 - Parsons v. Consolidated Gas Supply Corp. (1979)
93 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 154 W. Va. 369 - Intercity Realty Company v. Gibson · Tolson v. Hodge · Hutton v. Fisher · 148 W. Va. 515 - Lewis v. Dils Motor Company · 160 Cal. App. 2d 222 - Bice v. Stevens
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] default judgment obtained in accordance with the provisions of Rule 55(b), West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure, is a valid and enforceable judgment and a motion to set aside such judgment will not be granted unless the movant shows good cause therefor as prescribed in Rule 60(b) of the aforesaid Rules of Civil Procedure. A motion to vacate a default judgment is addressed to the sound discretion of the court and the court’s rilling on such motion will not be disturbed on appeal unless there is a showing of an abuse of such discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Although courts should not set aside default judgments or dismissals without good cause, it is the policy of the law to favor the trial of all cases on their merits.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Rules of Civil Procedure pertaining to the setting aside of default judgments should be liberally construed in order to provide the relief from onerous consequences of default judgments.”
2 later decisions 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.