117 W. Va. 355 - Tynes v. Shore’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Dewitt Truck Brokers, Inc. v. W. Ray Flemming Fruit Co. (1976), 152 W. Va. 91 - Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. (1968)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Wenban Estate, Inc. v. Hewlett · Donovan v. Purtell · Dixie Coal Min. & Mfg. Co. v. Williams · State v. Lambert · Security Bank Note Co. v. Shrader
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether or not the promise of a person to pay a debt for which he was theretofore not liable is within the statute of frauds, depends on intention. If he intended the promise to be collateral, it is within the statute; if original, it is not.”
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.