135 W. Va. 341 - Webb v. Sessler’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 138 W. Va. 639 - Matthews v. Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Co. (1953), 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards (1953)
3 federal appellate · 65 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 129 W. Va. 267 - Divita v. Atlantic Trucking Co. · Schwartz v. Shull · 125 W. Va. 356 - Fleming v. McMillan · 115 W. Va. 665 - Jones v. Virginian Railway Co. · Donald v. Long Branch Coal 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proximate cause of an injury is the last negligent act contributing thereto, without which such injury would not have resulted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that cause which in actual sequence, unbroken by any independent cause, produces an event and without which the event would not have occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yates v. Mancari
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.