201 W. Va. 588 - Coleman v. Sopher’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 213 W. Va. 80 - Findley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2003), 215 W. Va. 544 - Barefield v. DPIC Companies, Inc. (2004)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, Inc. · 196 W. Va. 223 - In Interest of Tiffany Marie S. · 194 W. Va. 97 - Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc. · McEwen v. City of Norman · 192 W. Va. 165 - State v. Derr
Most-quoted passages
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“In the course of this testimony, Sopher's counsel made two objections pertaining to the form of the particular question being asked and one additional objection as to relevancy. Because Sopher failed to raise, on the record, the specific errors he now asserts [that the evidence should have been excluded under West Virginia Rule of Evidence 404(b)], we deem any such errors were waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.