130 W. Va. 540 - Skaff v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 133 W. Va. 569 - Davis v. Pugh (1949), 147 W. Va. 352 - Payne v. Kinder (1962)
71 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 125 W. Va. 722 - Bragg v. C. I. Whitten Transfer Co. · Deputy v. Kimmell · 118 W. Va. 545 - Meyn v. Dulaney-Miller Auto Co. · 114 W. Va. 236 - Robertson v. Hobson · 102 W. Va. 541 - Ritter v. Hicks
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Disregard of the requirements of a traffic statute or ordinance is prima facie actionable negligence when it is the natural and proximate cause of the injury, and where in an action for personal injuries the evidence conflicts on the question of proximate cause, such question is one of fact for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle. (Code 1958, pt. 3, ch. 9, art. 71, # 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was exercising ordinary care in attempting to cross Virginia Street at the point of injury immediately after leaving said bus”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Metro v. Smith
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.