171 W. Va. 596 - Cordell v. Jarrett’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 175 W. Va. 165 - Bell v. Inland Mutual Insurance (1985), 223 W. Va. 146 - State Ex Rel. Prosecuting Attorney v. Bayer Corp. (2009)
27 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 157 W. Va. 778 - Toler v. Shelton · Grammenos v. C. M. Lemos · 69 Ohio App. 2d 40 - Grant v. Ivy · 155 W. Va. 875 - McDaniel v. Romano · 163 W. Va. 464 - Parsons v. Consolidated Gas Supply Corp.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A default judgment obtained in accordance with the provisions of Rule 55(b), West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure, is a valid and enforceable judgment and a motion to set aside such judgment will not be granted unless the movant shows good cause therefor as prescribed in Rule 60(b) of the aforesaid Rules of Civil Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] party should not be deprived of his opportunity to be heard on the merits when he failed to appear for lack of notice.”
1 later decision 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.