205 W. Va. 708 - STATE EX. REL. MEANS v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2019
2 district · 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 Geders v. United States · 194 W. Va. 138 - Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L. · Perry v. Leeke · 199 W. Va. 12 - State Ex Rel. Hoover v. Berger · Potashnick v. Port City Construction 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to prepare a witness is not different before the questions begin than it is during (or after, since a witness may be recalled for rebuttal, etc., during trial).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“under the federal equivalent to Rule 68(c) necessarily base their analysis on 28 U.S.C. § 1920 , a statute that is not applicable in the instant case and for which there is no West Virginia counter-part. 5 . Although the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure do not distinguish between evidentiary and discovery depositions, this Court has previously recognized that differences exist between the two in practice. Specifically,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Hall decision effectively precludes counsel and his witness from speaking to each other once a deposition has begun, until it is finished. If they so much as speak to each other, opposing counsel then has the right to inquire into every thing that was said.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.