229 W. Va. 31 - Wolfe v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 196 W. Va. 535 - Banker v. Banker · 158 W. Va. 741 - Long v. City of Weirton · 207 W. Va. 203 - Meadows v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. · 210 W. Va. 490 - Walker v. Doe · 213 W. Va. 457 - State Ex Rel. Medical Assurance of West Virginia, Inc. v. Recht
Most-quoted passages
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“The adoption of a new syllabus point correspondingly presupposes that the subject case also presents a new factual predicate that the Court has not previously had occasion to consider and that the new syllabus point is necessary to explain how the law applies to the fact pattern then before the Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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