159 W. Va. 396 - Hamon v. Akers’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2010
13 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 Bruce Construction Corp. v. United States ex rel. Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. · 146 W. Va. 619 - Petros v. Kellas · Berry v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · 145 W. Va. 310 - Wyckoff v. Painter · 158 W. Va. 1 - Guthrie v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Under the provisions of Rule 66 of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure, when the moving party presents depositions, interrogatories, affidavits or otherwise indicates there is no genuine issue as to any material fact, the resisting party to avoid summary judgment must present some evidence that the facts are in dispute.’ Syl. pt. 2, Guthrie v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., 168 W.Va. 1 , 208 S.E.2d 60 (1974).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the general rule that parol evidence is admissible to show conditions precedent which relate to the delivery or the taking effect of a written instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a motion for summary judgment is made and supported as provided in this rule, an adverse party may not rest upon the mere allegations or denials of his pleading, but his response, by affidavits or as otherwise provided in this rule, must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial. If he does not so respond, summary judgment, if appropriate, shall be entered against him.”
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.