169 W. Va. 239 - White v. Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 168 W. Va. 211 - State Ex Rel. White v. Mohn · 151 W. Va. 439 - South Side Lumber Co. v. Stone Construction Co. · 158 W. Va. 521 - Young v. Young · 155 W. Va. 582 - Painter Motors, Inc. v. Cletis Higgins
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the record in an action or suit is such that an appellate court can not in justice determine the judgment that should be finally rendered, the case should be remanded to the trial court for further development.””
3 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.