132 W. Va. 722 - Wright v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 167 W. Va. 597 - Jenkins v. J. C. Penney Casualty Ins. (1981), 152 W. Va. 91 - Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. (1968)
25 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 Thompson v. Thompson · Jessie Thompson v. Charles N Thompson · Brown v. Brown · Austin v. Austin · David v. David
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof, then, and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which, would have been liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to murder in the first or second degree or manslaughter. * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To allow actions for damages between spouses for alleged personal injury would involve the placing of an additional strain on the marriage relation. The state is vitally concerned in maintaining that relationship and not in facilitating its disruption by authorizing personal injury actions between them'another step to destroy the sacred relation of man and wife, and to open the door to lawsuits between them for every real and fancied wrong'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The law favors compromise and reconciliation of differences between persons whose disagreements give rise to litigation. See State ex rel. Showen v. O’Brien, 89 W. Va. 634 , 109 S.E. 830 ; Davis v. Lilly, 96 W. Va. 144 , 122 S.E. 444 ; Caperton’s Adm’r v. Caperton’s Heirs, 36 W. Va. 635 , 15 S.E. 149 ; ...” [Other citations omitted].”
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.