147 W. Va. 402 - Butler v. Smith's Transfer Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 158 W. Va. 741 - Long v. City of Weirton (1975), 182 W. Va. 597 - Board of Education v. Zando, Martin & Milstead, Inc. (1990)
47 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 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards · 137 W. Va. 1 - State v. Blankenship · 143 W. Va. 648 - Lewis v. Mosorjak · 130 W. Va. 540 - Skaff v. Dodd · 125 W. Va. 591 - Sigmon v. Mundy
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If one tort-feasor is guilty of negligence and another tort-feasor is also guilty of negligence by virtue of acts or omissions which occur in point of time and place after the first tort-feasor’s act of negligence, both of which coupled together proximately caused damage or injury to a plaintiff, both tort-feasors would be guilty of concurrent negligence and both would be liable for damage or injury suffered by a plaintiff as a result of such negligent acts.” Syllabus point 4., id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Stipulations or agreements made in open court by the parties in the trial of a case and acted upon are binding and a judgment founded thereon will not be reversed.”
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.