166 W. Va. 456 - General Electric Co. v. Keyser’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 176 W. Va. 368 - Cook v. Heck's Inc. (1986), 179 W. Va. 762 - Lee v. Saliga (1988)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 Allstate Insurance v. Hague · Seeman v. Philadelphia Warehouse Co. · Duobond Corp. v. Congress Factors Corp. · Bedford v. Eastern Building Loan Association of Syracuse · 76 Wash. 2d 806 - Potlatch No. 1 Federal Credit Union v. Kennedy
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The law of the state in which a contract is made and to be performed governs the construction of a contract when it is involved in litigation in the courts of this state’. Syl. pt. 1 (in part) Michigan National Bank v. Mattingly, 158 W.Va. 621 , 212 S.E.2d 754 (1975).””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A choice of law provision in a contract will not be given effect when the contract bears no substantial relationship with the jurisdiction whose laws the parties have chosen to govern the agreement, or when the application of that law would offend the public policy of this state.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“) ("The Supreme Court has indicated in passing that forum selection clauses are not contrary to public policy.”
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.