This article shall be construed liberally and in harmony with ruling judicial interpretations of comparable federal antitrust statutes.
W. Va. Code § 47-18-16
Judicial construction
Known as the West Virginia Antitrust Act
The act spans §§ 47–47 (24 sections).
Applied in 18 court decisions — leading case 527 F. Supp. 2d 1011 - In Re Graphics Processing Units Antitrust Litigation (2007)
Most recently applied in In re Keurig Green Mountain Single-Serve Coffee Antitrust Litig. (April 2019)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.