144 W. Va. 722 - Forney v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1987
12 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 Eagle, Star & British Dominions Insurance v. Heller · 134 W. Va. 121 - Moore v. Skyline Cab, Inc. · 143 W. Va. 429 - Dodrill v. Young · 135 W. Va. 795 - Saena v. Zenith Optical Co. · Rhines v. Bond
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the general rule is to the effect that the substantive rights of the parties to an action are governed by the lex loci and that the lex fori controls as to matters pertaining to remedial rights of the parties is almost universally the rule applied where the question of conflict of laws arises in the trial of a case seems well settled.””
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.