207 W. Va. 640 - State v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably State v. Flippo (2002), 234 W. Va. 143 - State of West Virginia v. Marcus Patrele McKinley (2014)
129 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 New Jersey v. New York · In re Vey · 194 W. Va. 97 - Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc. · Rogers v. Corrosion Products, Inc. · 159 W. Va. 621 - Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing challenges to findings and rulings made by a circuit court, we apply a two-pronged deferential standard of review. We review the rulings of the circuit court concerning a new trial and its conclusion as to the existence of reversible error under an abuse of discretion standard, and we review the circuit court’s underlying factual findings under a clearly erroneous standard. Questions of law are subject to a de novo review.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Although the ruling of a trial court in granting or denying a motion for a new trial is entitled to great respect and weight, the trial court’s ruling will be reversed on appeal when it is clear that the trial court has acted under some misapprehension of the law or the evidence.’ Syl. pt. 4, Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp., 159 W.Va. 621 , 225 S.E.2d 218 (1976).” Syllabus point 1, Andrews v. Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Inc., 201 W.Va. 624 , 499 S.E.2d 846 (1997).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial judge's decision to award a new trial is not subject to appellate review unless the trial judge abuses his or her discretion.”
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.