141 W. Va. 760 - Barniak v. Grossman’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably 167 W. Va. 597 - Jenkins v. J. C. Penney Casualty Ins. (1981), 145 W. Va. 408 - Spurlin v. Nardo (1960)
5 federal appellate · 38 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 130 W. Va. 540 - Skaff v. Dodd · 126 W. Va. 828 - Hayes v. Town of Cedar Grove · 126 W. Va. 732 - Taylor v. City of Huntington · 131 W. Va. 30 - Rich v. Rosenshine · 134 W. Va. 121 - Moore v. Skyline Cab, Inc.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A city which is authorized and required by its charter to keep in repair public sidewalks is, within the meaning of Chapter 40, Article X, Section 17, Acts of the Legislature, 1933, First Extraordinary Session and Section 1, Chapter 89, Acts of the Legislature, 1949, Regular Session, liable for damages to a pedestrian occasioned by the slippery condition of the sidewalk when such sidewalk is obstructed by an accumulation of snow and ice so as to render it out of repair and unsafe for travel in the usual mode with ordinary care by day or night.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This Court has held in many cases that the violation of a statute or an ordinance is prima facie actionable negligence when it is the natural and proximate cause of an injury.”
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.