200 W. Va. 791 - Hupp v. Sasser’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Regents of the University of Michigan v. Ewing
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.
“[t]he threshold of what constitutes bullyism to one would necessarily not be the same for another”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Schwartz“devoid of a provably false assertion of fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Schwartz
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.