139 W. Va. 263 - Weekley v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 130 W. Va. 623 - State Ex Rel. Davis Trust Co. v. Sims · 139 W. Va. 92 - State Ex Rel. Bumgarner v. Sims · 134 W. Va. 173 - Price v. Sims · 133 W. Va. 610 - State Ex Rel. Catron v. Sims · 134 W. Va. 167 - State Ex Rel. Jordan v. Sims
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A claim for personal injuries caused by the negligence of an agent or an employee of the State, while engaged in the discharge of a governmental function, may form the basis of a valid moral obligation of the State and justify a legislative appropriation of public funds of the State for the payment of such claim. ’ ’”
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.