136 W. Va. 465 - Horn v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably 177 W. Va. 323 - Hayseeds, Inc. v. State Farm Fire & Cas. (1986), 176 W. Va. 368 - Cook v. Heck's Inc. (1986)
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Hurxthal v. Boom Co. · McDaniel v. Daves · Orebaugh v. Antonious · Hall v. Philadelphia 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages in contract cases cannot be punitive ... the plaintiff is not entitled to damages beyond his actual loss.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. 22 Ucc Rep.serv.2d 166 · Abex Corporation/jetway Division, a Delaware Corporation v. Controlled Systems, Incorporated, a West Virginia Corporation, Abex Corporation/jetway Division, a Delaware Corporation v. Controlled Systems, Incorporated, a West Virginia Corporation, Abex Corporation/jetway Division, a Delaware Corporation v. Controlled Systems, Incorporated, a West Virginia Corporation“must be such as will give, and only such as will give, compensation for the actual loss directly flowing from the breach of the contract.”
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.