184 W. Va. 611 - Goodwin v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2018
6 federal appellate · 6 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 137 W. Va. 694 - Cato v. Silling · 171 W. Va. 97 - Wells v. Smith · 181 W. Va. 168 - Berry v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · Mayer v. Frobe · 156 W. Va. 592 - Addair v. Huffman
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.
“[I]f you find from a preponderance of all the evidence in this case, that the actions of the Defendants in evicting the Plaintiff were in total disregard of the Plaintiff's rights as a lessee in the leased premises and that such actions were willful and wanton then you may award the Plaintiff punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In actions of tort, where gross fraud, malice, oppression, or wanton, willful, or reckless conduct or criminal indifference to civil obligations affecting the rights of others appear, or where legislative enactment authorizes, it, the jury may assess exemplary, punitive, or vindictive damages....”
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.