185 W. Va. 177 - Gilman v. Choi’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Broders v. Heise (1996), 191 W. Va. 39 - Wilt v. Buracker (1994)
42 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 Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Curtis v. Loether · William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · 162 W. Va. 857 - Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very person is competent to be a witness except as otherwise provided for by statute or these rules.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“authorizes a trial court to require `the testimony of one or more knowledgeable, competent expert witnesses' to establish the applicable standard of care in a medical malpractice action and a defendant's failure to meet that standard, if at issue.”
1 later decision 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.