188 W. Va. 452 - Kincaid v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2022
4 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 171 W. Va. 445 - Nelson v. West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Board · 155 W. Va. 875 - McDaniel v. Romano · 151 W. Va. 439 - South Side Lumber Co. v. Stone Construction Co. · 175 W. Va. 249 - Daily Gazette Co., Inc. v. Canady · 153 W. Va. 613 - Somerville v. Jacobs
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court, upon motion or upon its own initiative, may impose upon the person who signed it, a represented party, or both, an appropriate sanction, which may include an order to pay to the other party or parties the amount of the reasonable expenses incurred because of the filing of the pleading, motion, or other paper, including a reasonable attorney's fee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A court may order payment by an attorney to a prevailing party [of] reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred as the result of his or her vexatious, wanton, or oppressive assertion of a claim or defense that cannot be supported by a good faith argument for the application, extension, modification, or reversal of existing law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the record in an action or suit is such that an appellate court can not in justice determine the judgment that should be finally rendered, the case should be remanded to the trial court for further development.”
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.