200 W. Va. 667 - Keesecker v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 202 W. Va. 430 - Elmore v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (1998), 213 W. Va. 675 - Brooks v. Isinghood (2003)
56 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · 194 W. Va. 138 - Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L. · Schapansky v. Department of Transportation
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n interpretation of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure presents a question of law subject to a de novo review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n tort actions, unless there is a clear statutory prohibition to its application, under the discovery rule the statute of limitations begins to inn when the plaintiff knows, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence, should know (1) that the plaintiff has been injured, (2) the identity of the entity who owed the plaintiff a duty to act with due care, and who may have engaged in conduct that breached that duty, and (3) that the conduct of that entity has a causal relation to the injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very action shall be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest.”
2 later decisions 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.