Railing v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1982
2 federal appellate ·
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · 131 W. Va. 584 - City of Wheeling Ex Rel. Carter v. American Casualty Co. · 120 W. Va. 319 - Wilder v. Charleston Transit Co. · 122 W. Va. 115 - Byrd v. Byrd
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““and where no action has been brought by the injured party before his death, not resulting from such injury, his personal representative may institute such action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Conrad v. Wertz
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.