175 W. Va. 797 - Vincent v. Preiser’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013
11 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 168 W. Va. 306 - Addair v. Bryant · Black Panther Party v. Smith · 175 W. Va. 165 - Bell v. Inland Mutual Insurance · Springdale School District No. 50 v. Grace · 171 W. Va. 676 - State v. Flint
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In lieu of any of the foregoing orders or in addition thereto, the court shall require the party failing to obey the order or the attorney advising him or both to pay the reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees, caused by the failure, unless the court finds that the failure was substantially justified or that other circumstances make an award of expenses unjust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule [Rule 26(c)] requires that good cause be shown for a protective order. This puts the burden on the party seeking relief to show some plainly adequate reason therefor. The courts have insisted on a particular and specific demonstration of fact, as distinguished from stereotyped and conclusory statements, in order to establish good cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where there has been a failure to comply with an order to provide discovery unless the court finds such an award would be unjust. The court in the text considered at some length whether the neglect could be substantially justified based on a good faith argument. Thus, the two defenses to a motion for sanctions, discussed in note 4, supra, i.e.,”
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.