200 W. Va. 342 - Childress v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 157 W. Va. 778 - Toler v. Shelton · 159 W. Va. 179 - Stevens v. Saunders · 195 W. Va. 74 - Jackson General Hospital v. Davis · 151 Ill. App. 3d 860 - North Cicero Dodge, Inc. v. Victoria Feed Co. · 197 W. Va. 282 - State Ex Rel. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. v. Kaufman
Most-quoted passages
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“Dismissal under Rule 4(1) of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure is mandatory in a case in which good cause for the lack of service is not shown, and a plaintiff whose case is subject to dismissal for noncompliance with Rule 4(1) has two options to avoid the consequence of the dismissal: (1) To timely show good cause for not having effected service of the summons and complaint, or (2) to refile the action before any time defenses arise and timely effect service under the new complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Withrow v. Williams
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.