210 W. Va. 490 - Walker v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably AA PRIMO BUILDERS, LLC v. Washington (2010), 234 W. Va. 143 - State of West Virginia v. Marcus Patrele McKinley (2014)
2 federal appellate · 71 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 Edelman v. Jordan · Furman v. Georgia · 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · George Bush v. Albert Gore · 163 W. Va. 332 - Bradley v. Appalachian Power 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his Court will use signed opinions when new points of law are announced and those points will be articulated through syllabus points as required by our state constitution.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Per curiam opinions have precedential value as an application of settled principles of law to facts necessarily differing from those at issue in signed opinions. The value of a per curiam opinion arises in part from the guidance such decisions can provide to the lower courts regarding the proper application of the syllabus points of law relied upon to reach decisions in those cases.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] per curiam opinion that appears to deviate from generally accepted rules of law is not binding on the circuit courts, and should be relied upon only with great caution.” Graf v. West Virginia Univ., 189 W.Va. 214 , 429 S.E.2d 496 (1992). See also Walker v. Doe, 210 W.Va. 490, 495 , 558 S.E.2d 290, 295 (2001) (citation omitted) (noting”
3 later decisions 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.