178 W. Va. 118 - Hicks v. Chevy’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2013
2 federal appellate · 10 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 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 164 W. Va. 241 - Masinter v. Webco Co. · 168 W. Va. 306 - Addair v. Bryant · County of Los Angeles Et Al. v. Kling · 149 W. Va. 166 - Roberts Ex Rel. Roberts v. Gale
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Under the provisions of Rule 66 of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure, when the moving party presents depositions, interrogatories, affidavits or otherwise indicates there is no genuine issue as to any material fact, the resisting party to avoid summary judgment must present some evidence that the facts are in dispute.’ Syl. pt. 2, Guthrie v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., 168 W.Va. 1 , 208 S.E.2d 60 (1974).”
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.