139 W. Va. 917 - Harper v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2010
3 federal appellate · 9 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 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. · Norman v. Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Co. · Nolde Bros. v. Chalkley · 140 W. Va. 31 - Butcher v. Stull · 136 W. Va. 268 - Pitzer v. M. D. Tomkies & Sons
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A controlled fire used to destroy trash and other refuse, is not a dangerous instrumentality or agency such as is required to be guarded against the possibility that children may be attracted thereby and suffer injury therefrom.” (Harper v. Cook, 139 W. Va. 917 , 82 S.E. 2d 427 , Syl. 3 [1954], following Tiller v. Baisden, 128 W. Va. 126 , 35 S.E. 2d 728 [1945].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he employment of a child in violation of provisions of [the Child Labor Act] ... is actionable negligence ... when such violation is the natural and proximate cause of an injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“liable for having permitted or suffered a child to continue [working when it] knew, or should have known, that the child was performing work for the [business].”
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.