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← 176 WVA 540 - Keller v. Landis

Keller v. Landis’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1988
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 157 W. Va. 257 - Jones, Inc. v. W. A. Wiedebusch Plumbing & Heating Co. · 151 W. Va. 709 - Sommerville v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co.

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where the evidence given on behalf of the defendant is clearly insufficient to support a verdict for him so that such verdict, if returned by a jury, must be set aside, and the evidence of the plaintiff is clear and convincing, it is the duty of the trial court, when so requested, to direct a verdict for the plaintiff.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.