190 W. Va. 286 - Martin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2019
23 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 166 W. Va. 581 - Bond v. City of Huntington · 168 W. Va. 111 - Bowman v. Barnes · 155 W. Va. 431 - Baldwin v. Butcher · 172 W. Va. 785 - Prager v. Meckling · 180 W. Va. 78 - Moore v. Goode
Most-quoted passages
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“). Here, although counsel for Mr. Smith orally objected to the testimony at trial, a recess or continuance was never requested. Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that this was a situation where claiming trial by ambush or unfair surprise was proper, counsel never took the appropriate action. Counsel for Mr. Smith could have easily moved for a continuance or a recess, but failed to do so. As such, we find no error in allowing Dr. Manning to offer testimony of ACOG's”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“West Virginia's wrongful death statute is remedial, and is liberally construed to effect the Legislature's intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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