General Electric Co. v. Keyser

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• choice of New York law rejected because of insubstantial connection
• rejecting choice of law based on state of incorporation
• “A choice of law provision in a contract will not be given effect when the contract bears no substantial relationship with the jurisdiction whose laws the parties have chosen to govern the agreement, or when the application of that law would offend the public policy of this state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cook v. Heck's Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-04-04· cited 157×
• Mercury Coal & Coke, Inc., a West Virginia Corporation v. Mannesmann Pipe and Steel Corporation, a Corporation
  Fourth Circuit· 1982-12-22· cited 64×
• Lee v. Saliga
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-09-16· cited 58×
• Caperton v. AT Massey Coal Co., Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2009-11-30· cited 43×
• West Virginia CVS Pharmacy, LLC v. McDowell Pharmacy, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-02-09· cited 43×
• Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Triangle Industries, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-02-21· cited 30×
• Nadler v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-11-13· cited 28×
• Cannelton Industries, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. of America
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-12-08· cited 26×
• Tex S. v. Karen Pszczolokowski, Warden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-10-08· cited 25×
• Manville Personal Injury Settlement Fund v. Don L. Blankenship
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-09-12· cited 24×
• John D. Stump & Associates, Inc. v. Cunningham Memorial Park, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-05-29· cited 24×
• Ball v. Joy Manufacturing Co.
  S.D. West Virginia· 1990-11-08· cited 23×
• Bryan v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-07-16· cited 21×
• Caperton v. AT Massey Coal Co., Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-07-28· cited 20×
• Lee Enterprises, Inc. v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-05-25· cited 17×
• Riffe Ex Rel. Riffe v. Magushi
  S.D. West Virginia· 1994-07-08· cited 16×
• Howe v. Howe
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2005-12-16· cited 14×
• Cavcon, Inc. v. Endress+ Hauser, Inc.
  S.D. West Virginia· 2008-05-08· cited 13×
• Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Coe
  S.D. West Virginia· 2004-04-09· cited 10×
• Blackrock Capital Investment Corp. v. Jerry Fish
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-04-24· cited 10×

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Allstate Insurance v. Hague
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-02· cited 549×
• Seeman v. Philadelphia Warehouse Co.
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-31· cited 91×
• Carper v. Kanawha Banking & Trust Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-02-05· cited 80×
• Bedford v. Eastern Building and Loan Assn.
  Supreme Court· 1901-04-22· cited 70×
• Potlatch No. 1 Federal Credit Union v. Kennedy
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-09-25· cited 56×
• Snodgrass v. Sisson's Mobile Home Sales, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-04-07· cited 45×
• Norris v. Norris
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1980-08-27· cited 43×
• State Ex Rel. Meierhenry v. Spiegel, Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1979-03-29· cited 35×
• Michigan National Bank v. Mattingly
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-03-25· cited 34×
• BOARD OF ED., ETC. v. W. Harley Miller, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-11-18· cited 33×
• Redwing Carriers, Inc. v. Foster
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-04-11· cited 33×
• Leasewell, Ltd. v. Jake Shelton Ford, Inc.
  S.D. West Virginia· 1976-09-28· cited 32×
• PEMCO Corp. v. Rose
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-07-16· cited 26×
• National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1978-12-09· cited 23×
• Brierley v. Commercial Credit Co.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1929-12-09· cited 22×
• Axelrod v. Premier Photo Service, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-04-21· cited 16×
• Moody v. Kirkpatrick
  M.D. Tennessee· 1964-10-15· cited 16×
• Kolendo v. Jerell, Inc.
  S.D. West Virginia· 1980-05-21· cited 16×
• Sarlot-Kantarjian v. First Pennsylvania Mortgage Trust
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-07-02· cited 16×
• Exchange Bank & Trust Co. v. Tamerius
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1978-05-10· cited 14×