119 W. Va. 690 - Early v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2009
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 119 W. Va. 215 - Hunn v. Windsor Hotel Co. · 74 W. Va. 606 - Smith v. Sunday Creek Co. · 112 W. Va. 237 - Cornwell v. S. S. Kresge Co. · Sneed v. Moorehead
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of an innkeeper or hotelkeeper to keep his buildings and premises in a condition reasonably safe for the use of his guests, and where his negligence in this respect is the proximate cause of an injury to a guest, he is liable therefor, provided the guest at the time is in a place where he has a right, and is reasonably expected, to go. The foregoing rule has been applied in cases involving unguarded or unlighted stairways, unguarded elevator shafts, defective railings, unguarded openings in platforms of fire escapes, defective or insecurely ■ or unsafely fastened window screens, defective chairs, and an unsafe room in which the guest was placed.”
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.