178 W. Va. 717 - Dawson v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Harris · 149 W. Va. 65 - Nesbitt v. Flaccus · 155 W. Va. 547 - Skeen v. C AND G CORPORATION · 173 W. Va. 325 - Jenrett v. Smith · Spitzli v. Minson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court has broad discretion in controlling argument before the jury,”
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.