198 W. Va. 307 - King v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2014
8 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 New Jersey v. New York · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Gemelli v. Pennsylvania · 194 W. Va. 97 - Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc. · Rogers v. Corrosion Products, 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the judgment finally obtained by the offeree is not more favorable than the offer, the offeree must pay the costs incurred after the making of the offer.”
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.