175 W. Va. 723 - Wayne County Bank v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 169 W. Va. 673 - Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont · 164 W. Va. 241 - Masinter v. Webco Co. · Quaranto v. Silverman · 155 W. Va. 475 - Wilkinson v. Searls
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for summary judgment should be granted if the pleadings, exhibits and discovery depositions upon which the motion is submitted for decision disclose that the case involves no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the party who made the motion is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘Generally, abuse of process consists of the willful or malicious misuse or misapplication of lawfully issued process to accomplish some purpose not intended or warranted by that process.’ Preiser v. MacQueen, [ 177 W.Va. 273, 279 , 352 S.E.2d 22, 28 (1985)].”
3 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.