199 W. Va. 299 - Perdue v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2017
2 federal appellate · 10 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 152 W. Va. 578 - Humble Oil & Refining Company v. Lane · 159 W. Va. 179 - Stevens v. Saunders · Woodruff v. Shores · 192 W. Va. 260 - Johnson v. Nedeff · 170 W. Va. 771 - Bailey v. SWCC and Eastern Associated Coal Corp.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, [sjtatutes of limitation are statutes of repose and the legislative purpose is to compel the exercise of a right of action within a reasonable time; such statutes represent a statement of public policy with regard to the privilege to litigate and are a valid and constitutional exercise of the legislative power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Myers“our decisions reflect[ing] our commitment to ensuring that such time limits are strictly followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the institution of a cause of action within a reasonable time.”
1 later decision 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.