171 W. Va. 397 - Perry v. Melton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 196 W. Va. 178 - Burgess v. Porterfield (1996), 171 W. Va. 607 - Robertson v. LeMaster (1983)
64 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 158 W. Va. 741 - Long v. City of Weirton · 147 W. Va. 825 - Walker v. Monongahela Power Company · 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards · 148 W. Va. 142 - Evans v. Farmer · 147 W. Va. 575 - Lester v. Rose
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In determining whether the verdict of a jury is supported by the evidence, every reasonable and legitimate inference, fairly arising from the evidence in favor of the party for whom the verdict was returned, must be considered, and those facts, which the jury might properly find under the evidence, must be assumed as true.’ Syllabus point 3, Walker v. Monongahela Power Company, 147 W.Va. 825 , 131 S.E.2d 736 (1963).” Syllabus Point 4, Long v. City of Weirton, 158 W.Va. 741 , 214 S.E.2d 832 (1975).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Bailey, while driving with a blood-alcohol content of .19 percent, sought to pass a tractor trailer going about fifty-five miles per hour by traveling in excess of that speed in the far right-hand lane designed for emergency parking only. This was, as a matter of law, at least ordinary negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Punitive damages in this state serve other equally important functions and are supported by public policy interests going beyond simple punishment of the wrongdoer. Consequently, the reasons for them do not cease on the death of the tortfeasor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hofer v. Lavender
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.