122 W. Va. 277 - Smith v. Eureka Pipe Line Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2019
2 district · 21 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 Rodman v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Anthony v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · Lambert v. Ensign Manuf'g Co. · Hoover's Adm'x. v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. · Lake Shore & M. S. Ry. Co. v. Dylinski
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the Smith case the Court reasoned that the two-year limitation upon the bringing of an action for wrongful death is an integral part of the statute itself and creates a condition precedent to the bringing of an action which bears no relationship to statutes of limitation and contains no language that would justify a joint construction with statutes of limitation.”
2 later decisions 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.