157 W. Va. 855 - Traverse Corporation v. Latimer’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2010
8 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 · 144 W. Va. 72 - State Ex Rel. Graney v. Sims · 154 W. Va. 542 - State Ex Rel. Cooke v. Jarrell · 156 W. Va. 562 - Hall v. Protan · State Ex Rel. Booth v. BOARD OF BALLOT COM'RS
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a]n unambiguous written contract entered into as the result of verbal or written negotiations will, in the absence of fraud or mistake, be conclusively presumed to contain the final agreement of the parties to it, and such contract may not be varied, contradicted or explained by extrinsic evidence of conversations had or statements made contemporaneously with or prior to its execution.” Point 2 Syllabus, Kanawha Banking and Trust Company v. Gilbert, 131 W.Va. 88 ( 46 S.E.2d 225 ) [(1947)].”
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.