178 W. Va. 322 - Cook v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 1995
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 171 W. Va. 584 - Conley v. Spillers · 172 W. Va. 158 - LaRue v. LaRue · 160 W. Va. 610 - Murredu v. Murredu · 167 W. Va. 1 - Patterson v. Patterson · State v. Worrell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the essentials of res judicata is that the issue raised in the second action or suit must be identical with the issue raised and determined in the first action or suit.” Syl. pt. 1, Soto v. Hope Natural Gas Co., 142 W.Va. 373 , 95 S.E.2d 769 (1956).”
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.