197 W. Va. 172 - Gallapoo v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
198 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 206 W. Va. 133 - Bower v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1999), 202 W. Va. 308 - Potesta v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1998)
198 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 Searle v. Simon · Mandolidis v. Elkins Industries, Inc. · 161 W. Va. 695 - Mandolidis v. Elkins Industries, Inc. · Simon v. Gd Searle & Co · Searle v. Simon
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he appellate standard of review of questions of law answered and certified by a circuit court is de novo.”
10 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.