186 W. Va. 62 - Gable v. Kroger Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 187 W. Va. 457 - TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp. (1992), 188 W. Va. 622 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Stephens (1992)
62 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 168 W. Va. 545 - State v. Scotchel · 178 W. Va. 47 - State v. Welker · 111 W. Va. 576 - Hendricks v. Monongahela West Penn Public Service 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rules 402 and 403 of the West Virginia Rules of Evidence [1985] direct the trial judge to admit relevant evidence, but to exclude any evidence the probative value of which is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice to the defendant. Such decisions are left to the sound discretion of the trial judge....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts. — Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To be admissible at all, similar occurrence evidence must relate to accidents or injuries or defects existing at substantially the same place and under substantially the same conditions. Evidence of injuries occurring under different circumstances or conditions is not admissible.”
2 later decisions 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.