Medlock v. Merrick’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2024
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 Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Chrysler Corp. v. Todorovich · Adolph Coors Co. v. Rodriguez · DeWald v. State · 160 W. Va. 156 - Freshwater v. Booth
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] trial court has broad discretion when it is ruling upon a motion requesting a new trial; its decision on the motion will not be overturned absent an abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlson v. Carlson
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.