124 W. Va. 143 - Barnette v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2011
3 federal appellate · 16 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 D. A. Schulte, Inc. v. North Terminal Garage Co. · Rogers v. Murch · 124 Pa. Super. 230 - Mee v. Sley System Garages, Inc. · 296 Ill. App. 238 - Mulhern v. Public Auto Parks, Inc. · Ridge Ave. Pass. Ry. Co. v. Philadelphia
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no particular ceremony or actual meeting of minds is necessary; it is the element of lawful possession, however created, and duty to account for the thing as the property of another that creates the bailment, regardless of whether or not such possession is based on contract in the ordinary sense.”
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.