171 W. Va. 203 - Adkins v. Slater’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2018
2 district · 14 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 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Thompson Manufacturing Co. · State of Washington Stimson Lumber Co v. Kuykendall · Chesapeake Ry Co v. A F Thompson Mag Co · Rosier v. Garron, Inc. · Rosier v. Garron, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[M]otions to amend should always be granted under Rule 15 when: (1) the amendment permits the presentation of the merits of the action; (2) the adverse party is not prejudiced by the sudden assertion of the subject of the amendment; and (3) the adverse party can be given ample opportunity to meet the issue.’ Syl. pt. 3, Rosier v. Garron, Inc., 156 W.Va. 861 , 199 S.E.2d 50 (1973), in part.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The doctrine of res ipsa loquitur cannot be invoked if defendant does not have control or management of the premises or operations where the accident occurred; or where there is divided responsibility, and the unexplained accident may have been the result of causes over which defendant had no control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The process of moving a mobile home is not so complex that it is beyond the comprehension of the average juror. Therefore, expert testimony was not necessary in this case to establish a standard of care, and to show whether the appellees violated that standard.”
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.