100 W. Va. 452 - Ambrose v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards (1953), 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. (1940)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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 Starcher v. South Penn Oil Co. · Moore v. Hart · Hawker v. B. &. O. R. R. · Pietrycka v. Simolan · 96 W. Va. 112 - Moorefield v. Lewis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The driver of the Ford had the right to assume, even at that, that the Hudson (defendant’s) car was running at a lawful rate of speed, and he might have avoided the collision, and made the passing in safety, had it been so running.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Erdman v. Inman
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.