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← 206 WVA 501 - State ex rel. Huffman v. Stephens

State ex rel. Huffman v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 195 W. Va. 121 - State Ex Rel. Riffle v. Ranson · 184 W. Va. 227 - Ellis v. King · 178 W. Va. 161 - Kidwell v. Westinghouse Electric Co. · Brent v. BD. OF TRUSTEES, ETC. · 163 W. Va. 390 - Brent v. Board of Trustees of David & Elkins College

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Whether a corporation is subject to venue in a given county in this State under the phrase in W. Va.Code, 56 — 1—1(b), "wherein it does business" depends upon the sufficiency of the corporation's minimum contacts in such county that demonstrate it is doing business ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the issue of venue [has] the potential of placing a litigant at an unwarranted disadvantage in a pending action and [] relief by appeal would be inadequate.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “to resolve the issue of where venue for a civil action lies,”
    1 later decision 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.