169 W. Va. 660 - Rife v. Woolfolk’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2012
2 district · 12 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 Shrewsbury v. Miller · 160 W. Va. 796 - Johnson v. Huntington Moving & Storage, Inc. · Hudson v. Iguano Land & Mining Co. · Environmental Products Co., Inc. v. Duncan · 80 W. Va. 761 - Pence v. Jamison
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sale of real estate by a trustee will not be set aside upon the ground of inadequacy of price unless such inadequacy is so great as to shock the conscience of the chancellor....” Syllabus point 9, in part, Pence v. Jamison, 80 W.Va. 761 , 94 S.E. 383 (1917). Syllabus point 3, in part, Rife v. Woolfolk, [169] W.Va. [660], 289 S.E.2d 220 (1982).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Before the principles of res judicata can be involved, there must have been an adjudication on the merits of a case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.