174 W. Va. 812 - Wolverton v. Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 171 W. Va. 584 - Conley v. Spillers · 144 W. Va. 583 - In Re Settlement of the Estate of McIntosh · Sayre's v. Harpold · Nationwide Ins. Co. v. Steigerwalt · Bensimer v. Fell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen counsel fees and personal expenses are sought to be recovered as damages on an injunction bond, it is incumbent on the plaintiff to show either that injunction was the sole relief to which the suit pertained or that the fees and expenses were paid out solely for the purpose of procuring a dissolution of the injunction, as distinguished from expenditures for the hearing of the principal issues involved in the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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