116 W. Va. 548 - Barker v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2007
6 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 Mulvey v. City of Boston · Maxson v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Kuhn v. Brownfield · Shelby Iron Co. v. Morrow · Birmingham v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in this country that where a minor child is injured by the wrongful act or omission of another, the father, or mother, if she be the natural guardian, may recover for the loss of such child’s services and for medical or surgical attendance, nursing, and other expenses incurred by such parent in consequence of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.