210 W. Va. 594 - Napier v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2022
10 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 172 W. Va. 627 - Shepherdstown Volunteer Fire Dept. v. State Ex Rel. State Human Rights Commission · Williams v. Lane · 198 W. Va. 329 - Public Citizen, Inc. v. First National Bank in Fairmont · 202 W. Va. 430 - Elmore v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 196 W. Va. 473 - Province v. Province
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.
“'In reviewing challenges to the findings and conclusions [found by a special commissioner that were adopted by the circuit court], a two-pronged deferential standard of review is applied. The final order and the ultimate disposition are reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard, and the circuit court's underlying factual findings are reviewed under a clearly erroneous standard. Questions of law are subject to a de novo review.' Syllabus Point 1, Public Citizen, Inc. v. First National Bank in Fairmont , 198 W.Va. 329 , 480 S.E.2d 538 (1996) and Syllabus Point 1, Napier v. Compton , 210 W.Va. 594 , 558 S.E.2d 593 (2001).”
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.