207 W. Va. 168 - Patton v. Gatson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 195 W. Va. 297 - Martin v. Randolph County Board of Education · 197 W. Va. 588 - State v. Miller · 192 W. Va. 561 - Adkins v. Gatson · 140 W. Va. 398 - Davis v. Hix · 194 W. Va. 569 - State v. Phillips
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen litigants come before this Court, I will consistently apply the law regardless of personal desires[,]”
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.