197 W. Va. 690 - Weaver v. Ritchie’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2015
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Morgan's Home Equipment Corp. v. Martucci · 188 W. Va. 197 - Lieving v. Hadley · 196 W. Va. 223 - In Interest of Tiffany Marie S. · 193 W. Va. 657 - Phillips v. Fox · Orkin Ex. Co. Inc., So. Georgia v. Dewberry
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n reviewing the exceptions to the findings of fact and conclusions of law supporting the granting [or denial] of [an] . . . injunction, we will apply a three-pronged deferential standard of review. We review the final order granting [or denying] the. . . injunction and the ultimate disposition under an abuse of discretion standard, we review the circuit court's underlying factual findings under a clearly erroneous standard, and we review questions of law de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a contract between the seller and purchaser of an established shop or business, which binds the seller, as incident to the sale or purchase of his property, not to set up and engage in a rival business within the neighborhood thereof or in such close proximity thereto as to detract from the natural patronage of such shop or business, is not void on grounds of public policy, as constituting an unreasonable restraint of trade.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A transfer of goodwill cannot be effectively accomplished without an enforceable agreement by the transferor not to act so unreasonably to diminish the value of that which he is selling.”
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.