181 W. Va. 800 - Koontz v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2017
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 148 W. Va. 142 - Evans v. Farmer · 170 W. Va. 459 - Cross v. Trapp · 162 W. Va. 925 - Kanawha Valley Bank v. Friend · 178 W. Va. 659 - McGlone v. Superior Trucking Co., Inc. · 157 W. Va. 866 - Dorsey v. Short
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A presumption of constructive fraud may arise in .connection with joint bank accounts with survivorship, if the parties to the joint account occupy a fiduciary or confidential! • relationship.-, This presumption requires the person who benefits from the creation of the account to bear the burden of proving that the funds were, in fact, a bona fide gift.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the peculiar and exclusive province of the jury to weigh the evidence and resolve questions of fact when the testimony of witnesses is conflicting or when the facts, though undisputed, are such that reasonable men may draw different conclusions from them. (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nugen v. Simmons
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.