156 W. Va. 77 - Nellas v. Loucas’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 177 W. Va. 734 - National Mutual Insurance v. McMahon & Sons, Inc. (1987), 160 W. Va. 473 - Board of Education v. W. Harley Miller, Inc. (1977)
44 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 Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Jones v. Rogers Memorial Hospital · 147 W. Va. 352 - Payne v. Kinder · 152 W. Va. 222 - Perdue v. SJ Groves and Sons Company · 155 W. Va. 547 - Skeen v. C AND G CORPORATION
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The purpose of the words `and leave [to amend] shall be freely given when justice so requires' in Rule 15(a) W.Va.R. Civ.P., is to secure an adjudication on the merits of the controversy as would be secured under identical factual situations in the absence of procedural impediments; therefore, motions to amend should always be granted under Rule 15 when': (1) the amendment permits the presentation of the merits of the action; (2) the adverse party is not prejudiced by the sudden assertion of the subject of the amendment; and (3) the adverse party can be given ample opportunity to meet the issue."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion to amend a pleading is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and such discretion will not be disturbed on appeal unless there is a showing of abuse of discretion.”
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.