197 W. Va. 626 - Riffe v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 199 W. Va. 161 - Parkulo v. West Virginia Board of Probation & Parole (1997), K.H. v. J.R. (2003)
41 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 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · United States v. Hollywood Motor Car Co. · 194 W. Va. 770 - State Ex Rel. McGraw v. Scott Runyan Pontiac-Buick, Inc. · 188 W. Va. 197 - Lieving v. Hadley
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to alter or amend the judgment shall be served not later than ten days after entry of the judgment.” Rule 6(a) of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedures provides, in applicable part:”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘An exemption similar to that of judges from personal liability for their judicial acts is extended to officers in the other departments of government whenever they are entrusted with the exercise of discretionary power and their determinations or decisions are, by their nature judicial .... This immunity exists only where the officer has jurisdiction of the particular case and is authorized to determine it; if the officer transcends the limits of authority the officer ceases, in the particular case, to act as a judge, and is responsible for all the consequences_’ 32 Am.Jur.2d False Imprisonment § 109 (1995) (footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether an order dismissing fewer than all of the parties or fewer than all the claims in a civil action, which does not contain the express determinations set forth in Rule 54(b) of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure, was intended to be final and is therefore appealable before the entire action is terminated will be determined by this Court from all the circumstances and the terms of the order. The better practice for the circuit courts to follow is to expressly state or negate their intentions with respect to the finality of such an order within the body of the order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.