202 W. Va. 344 - Kelly v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2015
8 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 177 W. Va. 734 - National Mutual Insurance v. McMahon & Sons, Inc. · Atwater Creamery Co. v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co. · Rempel v. Nationwide Life Insurance · Reliance Insurance v. Moessner · C & J Fertilizer, Inc. v. Allied Mutual Insurance Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law expects an insurance salesman to tell an insurance consumer that an insurance product does not do what the consumer would expect it to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“most consumers never even see the policy until after the premiums are paid,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.