133 W. Va. 435 - Somerville v. Dellosa’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 138 W. Va. 639 - Matthews v. Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Co. (1953), 183 W. Va. 77 - Anderson v. Moulder (1990)
3 federal appellate · 52 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 123 W. Va. 234 - Boyce v. Black · 118 W. Va. 545 - Meyn v. Dulaney-Miller Auto Co. · 128 W. Va. 241 - Elswick v. Charleston Transit Co. · 101 W. Va. 621 - Chaney v. Moore · 113 W. Va. 35 - Oldfield v. Woodall
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The violation of a municipal ordinance creates a prima facie case of negligence and the determination as to whether there was in fact a violation and whether the violation was the proximate cause of the injury is within the province of the jury.””
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.