183 W. Va. 621 - Moreland v. Suttmiller’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2011
2 federal appellate · 11 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 152 W. Va. 91 - Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. · 157 W. Va. 778 - Toler v. Shelton · 154 W. Va. 369 - Intercity Realty Company v. Gibson · 152 W. Va. 241 - Miranosky v. Parson · 178 W. Va. 196 - Sharp v. Southern West Virginia Regional Health Council
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law favors and encourages the resolution of controversies by contracts of compromise and settlement rather than by litigation; and it is the policy of the law to uphold and enforce such contracts if they are fairly made and are not in contravention of some law or public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“On the whole, we believe that the evidence shows that settlement agreements were culminated between the appellants and both appellees. We base our conclusion in part on the Morelands' written and oral communications with their counsel and the court.”
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.