197 W. Va. 326 - Richardson v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 204 W. Va. 430 - Wickland v. American Travellers Life Insurance (1998), 205 W. Va. 519 - DeVane v. Kennedy (1999)
32 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 194 W. Va. 770 - State Ex Rel. McGraw v. Scott Runyan Pontiac-Buick, Inc. · 188 W. Va. 197 - Lieving v. Hadley · 184 W. Va. 562 - Durm v. Heck's, Inc. · Rosier v. Garron, Inc. · Rosier v. Garron, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite our repeated direction to the bench and bar of this State that a 'motion to reconsider' is not a properly titled pleading in West Virginia, it continues to be used.”). Typically, parties file”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen the ground for dismissal in a case is that the real party in interest did not institute the civil action, the trial court should stay the dismissal of the complaint and establish a reasonable period of time to allow someone to properly qualify as the real party in interest. Rule 17(a), West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huffman v. Criner
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.