140 W. Va. 791 - Ward v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 151 W. Va. 322 - Smith v. Edward M. Rude Carrier Corp. (1966), 141 W. Va. 152 - Toppins v. Oshel (1955)
5 federal appellate · 40 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 Hamilton v. Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance · 133 W. Va. 569 - Davis v. Pugh · 138 W. Va. 166 - Thrasher v. Amere Gas Utilities Co. · United States v. Robeson · 130 W. Va. 121 - Bennett v. Neff
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The measurement requirement of the specifications, made a part of the contract, could not be disregarded or departed from by the plaintiff without a showing by him of the existence of some condition which constituted a legal excuse or justification for his failure to satisfy that requirement. (Italics ours.)”
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.