192 W. Va. 585 - Michael v. Sabado’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 194 W. Va. 97 - Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc. (1995), 195 W. Va. 246 - Voelker v. Frederick Business Properties Co. (1995)
42 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 TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp. · 192 W. Va. 165 - State v. Derr · 183 W. Va. 641 - State v. Edward Charles L. · 176 W. Va. 368 - Cook v. Heck's Inc. · 176 W. Va. 688 - State v. Dolin
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he official purposes [sic] of voir dire is to elicit information which will establish a basis for challenges for cause and to acquire information that will afford the parties an intelligent exercise of peremptory challenges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f it be determined that a juror falsely answered a question on voir dire examination, whether or not a new trial should be awarded is within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Instructions must be read as a whole, and if, when so read, it is apparent they could not have misled the jury, the verdict will not be disturbed, through [sic] one of said instructions which is not a binding instruction may have been susceptible of a doubtful construction while standing alone.’ Syl. Pt. 3, Lambert v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 155 W.Va. 397 , 184 S.E.2d 118 (1971). Syllabus Point 2, Roberts v. Stevens Clinic Hospital, Inc., 176 W.Va. 492 , 345 S.E.2d 791 (1986). Syllabus Point 3, Lenox v. McCauley, 188 W.Va. 203 , 423 S.E.2d 606 (1992). Syllabus Point 6, Michael v. Sabado, 192 W.Va. 585 , 453 S.E.2d 419 (1994).””
1 later decision 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.