192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1,109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,111 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, Inc. (1995), 195 W. Va. 512 - Gentry v. Mangum (1995)
1,109 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co.
Cited together with 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, Inc. · 187 W. Va. 706 - Andrick v. Town of Buckhannon · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · 199 W. Va. 349 - Fayette County National Bank v. Lilly
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 1,111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for summary judgment should be granted only when it is clear that there is no genuine issue of fact to be tried and inquiry concerning the facts is not desirable to clarify the application of the law.”
115 later decisions quote this exact passage“Summary judgment is appropriate if, from the totality of the evidence presented, the record could not lead a rational trier of fact to find for the nonmoving party, such as where the nonmoving party has failed to make a sufficient showing on an essential element of the case that it has the burden to prove.”
73 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] circuit court's entry of summary judgment is reviewed de novo.”
64 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.