214 W. Va. 746 - State Ex Rel. Rees v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2013
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 160 W. Va. 314 - State Ex Rel. Peacher v. Sencindiver · 197 W. Va. 463 - B.F. Specialty Co. v. Charles M. Sledd Co. · 196 W. Va. 513 - State v. Snider
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A writ of prohibition will not issue to prevent a simple abuse of discretion by a trial court.”
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.