127 W. Va. 124 - Webb v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2016
22 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 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. · Crowell v. Duncan · 123 W. Va. 234 - Boyce v. Black · 118 W. Va. 545 - Meyn v. Dulaney-Miller Auto Co. · 124 W. Va. 446 - Lynch v. Alderton
Most-quoted passages
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“This type of evidence [circumstantial] has often been held competent and adequate in negligence cases. In an action for wrongful death by an automobile accident, the Supreme Court of Virginia has said: `Inferences drawn from physical facts may be as strong as direct evidence. Such inferences amount to circumstantial evidence. Facts may be proven by circumstantial evidence as well as by direct evidence.' Barry v. Tyler, 171 Va. 381 , 199 S.E. 496, 499 . Substantially the same reasoning is found in Berry v. Colburn, 65 W. Va. 493 , 64 S.E. 636 , 17 Ann.Cas. 1018. We know of no holding to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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