128 W. Va. 353 - Franklin v. Pence’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 147 W. Va. 825 - Walker v. Monongahela Power Company (1963), 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards (1953)
1 federal appellate · 40 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 Carrico v. West Virginia Cent. & P. R'y Co. · 67 W. Va. 39 - Walker v. Strosnider · Guyandot Valley R'y Co. v. Buskirk · Bentley v. Standard Fire Insurance · 118 W. Va. 421 - Stephens v. Bartlett
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the covenants are dependent and mutual, as here, a party who violates the contract cannot recover damages which result from its violation by the other party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Teller v. McCoy
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.