175 W. Va. 31 - Pitsenbarger v. Gainer’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2002
1 federal appellate · 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 Montana v. United States · 171 W. Va. 584 - Conley v. Spillers · 170 W. Va. 151 - Powers v. Goodwin · 170 W. Va. 358 - Martin v. Mullins · 170 W. Va. 698 - Goe v. Browning
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether a stranger to the first action can assert collateral estoppel in the second action depends on several general inquiries: Whether the issues presented in the present case are the same as presented in the earlier case; whether the controlling facts or legal principles have changed substantially since the earlier case; and, whether there are special circumstances that would warrant the conclusion that enforcement of the judgment would be unfair.”
2 later decisions 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.