124 W. Va. 75 - Felty v. Compensation Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1973
20 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 124 W. Va. 37 - Reed v. Compensation Commissioner · 121 W. Va. 200 - Gay Coal & Coke Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 121 W. Va. 155 - Wheeling Metal & Manufacturing Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Commissioner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is very apparent that an injury to either a leg or an arm can impair the physical strength and fitness of the sufferer much more than the severance and loss of the same member.”
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.