180 W. Va. 6 - Catlett v. MacQueen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2010
16 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 173 W. Va. 317 - State v. Peyatt · 172 W. Va. 360 - Thornton v. CAMC, ETC. · 163 W. Va. 593 - State v. Rowe · 173 W. Va. 75 - McAllister v. Weirton Hospital Co. · 170 W. Va. 459 - Cross v. Trapp
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Where conflicting theories of a case are presented by the evidence, each party is entitled to have his view of the case presented to the jury by proper instruction.' Whitmore v. Rodes, 103 W.Va. 301 [, 137 S.E. 747 (1927) ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`If there be evidence tending in some appreciable degree to support the theory of proposed instructions, it is not error to give such instructions to the jury, though the evidence be slight, or even insufficient to support a verdict based entirely on such theory.' Syllabus Point 2, Snedecker v. Rulong, 69 W.Va. 223 , 71 S.E. 180 (1911).”
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.