186 W. Va. 214 - Howe v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2019
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 163 W. Va. 332 - Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co. · 176 W. Va. 492 - Roberts v. Stevens Clinic Hospital, Inc. · 151 W. Va. 158 - Morgan v. Price · 160 W. Va. 129 - King v. Bittinger · 164 W. Va. 400 - Royal Furniture Co. v. City of Morgantown
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘It is not error to refuse to give an instruction to the jury, though it states a correct and applicable principle of law, if the principle stated in the instruction refused is adequately covered by another instruction or other instructions given.’ Syl. Pt. 3, Morgan v. Price, 151 W.Va. 158 , 150 S.E.2d 897 (1966).” Syllabus point 3, Roberts v. Stevens Clinic Hosp., Inc., 176 W.Va. 492 , 345 S.E.2d 791 (1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tippie v. Tippie“instruction had no effect on the outcome of this case because the jury found that the Respondents were not liable for the infant's injuries. 15 After reviewing the jury instructions as a whole, we do not find error in excluding the proposed jury instruction. As the circuit court correctly found, the jury was fully instructed on all principles applicable to this matter, and the omission of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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