148 W. Va. 33 - Hoff v. State Compensation Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2002
17 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 Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission · 148 W. Va. 5 - Eady v. State Compensation Commissioner · 147 W. Va. 72 - Meade v. State Compensation Commissioner
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the liberality rule in the interpretation of evidence in Workmen’s Compensation cases is approved by this Court, the burden of establishing a claim for compensation rests upon the person asserting such claim. The rule of liberality will not take the place of required proof, and an award of compensation cannot be made on hearsay alone.”
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.