196 W. Va. 35 - Murphy v. Smallridge’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 204 W. Va. 95 - Kessel v. Leavitt (1998), 202 W. Va. 228 - Ewing v. Board of Education (1998)
84 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 Conley v. Gibson · Hishon v. King & Spalding · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · 194 W. Va. 770 - State Ex Rel. McGraw v. Scott Runyan Pontiac-Buick, Inc. · 3 Cal. 3d 507 - Schweiger v. Superior Court
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court is not limited to the legal grounds relied upon by the circuit court, but it may affirm or reverse a decision on any independently sufficient ground that has adequate support.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] residential tenant may state an affirmative cause of action for retaliatory eviction if the landlord's conduct is in retaliation for the tenant’s exercise of a right incidental to tire tenancy.” Syl. pt. 1, Murphy v. Smallridge, 196 W.Va. 35 , 468 S.E.2d 167 (1996). See also W. Va.Code § 37-15-7(a) (which expressly prohibits a landlord from evicting a tenant in retaliation because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] residential tenant does not have to continue living on the leased premises to preserve a cause of action for retaliatory eviction.” . Other remedies for seeking repossession of real property include an unlawful entry or detainer proceeding under W.Va.Code § 55-3-1 et seq., and an ejectment action under W.Va.Code § 55-4-1 et seq. It has been noted that”
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.