133 W. Va. 569 - Davis v. Pugh’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably 147 W. Va. 825 - Walker v. Monongahela Power Company (1963), 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards (1953)
5 federal appellate · 89 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 128 W. Va. 299 - Yuncke v. Welker · Kerr v. Lunsford · 121 W. Va. 115 - Webb v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. · 130 W. Va. 540 - Skaff v. Dodd · 125 W. Va. 722 - Bragg v. C. I. Whitten Transfer Co.
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person lawfully in a public highway may rely upon the exercise of reasonable care by drivers of vehicles to avoid injury. Failure to anticipate omission of such care does not render him negligent. A pedestrian is not bound, as a matter of law, to be continuously looking or listening to ascertain if automobiles or other vehicles are approaching, under penalty that if he fails to do so and is injured his own negligence will defeat recovery of damages sustained.”
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.