141 W. Va. 782 - Mills v. De Wees’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1992
15 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 Southern Railway Company v. Josephine King No 140 Southern Railway Company · Bliss v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Fields v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. · Sayre's v. Harpold · Doran v. Cohen
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule followed in a majority of the states is that a single wrongful or negligent act or omission causing an injury to both the person and the property of the same individual, constitutes but one cause of action with separate items of damage; hence the cause of action cannot be split, and a recovery of a judgment for either items of damage may be pleaded in bar of an action to recover for the other item of damage.””
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.