120 W. Va. 666 - Darling v. Browning’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1974
13 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 Hatzakorzian v. Rucker-Fuller Desk Co. · Mathers v. Botsford · 19 La. App. 663 - Safety Tire Service, Inc. v. Murov · Higginbotham v. State · Ruth v. Vroom
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an accepted mandate of law that, in the exercise of reasonable care, a motorist, temporarily blinded by the lights of an approaching vehicle, must exercise caution commensurate with the situation in order to avoid injury to the person or property of others. * # #.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickenson v. Tabb“An automobile guest failing to protest the action of the driver in encountering a possible danger reasonably apparent to both is, ordinarily, barred from recovery against the host for resulting injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An instruction calling the jury's attention to a particular, uncontrolling fact or circumstance, and thereby giving it undue prominence, is properly refused.”
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.