179 W. Va. 742 - Bennett v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 192 W. Va. 155 - State Ex Rel. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Madden (1994), 190 W. Va. 711 - Teter v. Old Colony Co. (1994)
80 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 154 W. Va. 369 - Intercity Realty Company v. Gibson · 161 W. Va. 530 - State v. Pratt · 160 W. Va. 567 - Stern Bros., Inc. v. McClure · 168 W. Va. 111 - Bowman v. Barnes · Moss v. Associated Transport, Inc.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder article eight, section three of our Constitution, the Supreme Court of Appeals shall have the power to promulgate rules for all of the courts of the State related to process, practice, and procedure, which shall have the force and effect of law.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Parties moving for separate trials of issues pursuant to West Virginia Rule of Civil Procedure 42(c), or the court if acting sua sponte, must provide sufficient justification to establish for review that informed discretion could have determined that the bifurcation would promote the recognized goals of judicial economy, convenience of the parties, and the avoidance of prejudice, the overriding concern being the provision of a fair and impartial trial to all litigants.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Issuance of a broad protective order, based upon the assertion of a blanket privilege against discovery, without scrutiny of each proposed area of inquiry and without giving full consideration to a more narrowly drawn order constitutes abuse of discretion under West Virginia Rule of Civil Procedure 26(c).”
3 later decisions 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.