163 W. Va. 65 - Floyd v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 182 W. Va. 597 - Board of Education v. Zando, Martin & Milstead, Inc. (1990), 164 W. Va. 190 - Hendershot v. Hendershot (1980)
50 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 Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Knaus v. Knaus · McCoy Farms, Inc. v. J & M McKEE · Penn Dixie Lines, Inc. v. Grannick
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Specific performance is an equitable remedy which compels the performance of a contract on the precise terms agreed upon or such a substantial performance as will do justice between the parties under the circumstances. It is a means of compelling a contracting party to do precisely what he should have done without being coerced by a court. [Citations omitted] The object in such cases is to place the party without fault in as nearly the same position as he would have been had there been no default by the other party. [McCoy Farms, Inc. v. J & M McKee, 263 Ark. 20 , 563 S.W.2d 409, 415 (1978)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Imposition of a fixed term of imprisonment for civil contempt is improper where the contemnor is given no opportunity to purge himself of the contempt and thus free himself from imprisonment."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The general rule is that a compromise or settlement agreement is favored by law[.]”
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.