142 W. Va. 772 - Adkins v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably 167 W. Va. 779 - Ratlief v. Yokum (1981), 143 W. Va. 648 - Lewis v. Mosorjak (1958)
37 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 Hartley v. Crede · 140 W. Va. 31 - Butcher v. Stull · 96 W. Va. 112 - Moorefield v. Lewis · Harden v. Wagner · 113 W. Va. 35 - Oldfield v. Woodall
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Concurrent negligence occurs when two or more persons are guilty of negligence and the negligence of each in point of time and place concurs and proximately causes or contributes to the injury of another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Metro v. Smith
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.