149 W. Va. 197 - McCoy v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 157 W. Va. 391 - Wager v. Sine (1973), 152 W. Va. 283 - Young v. Duffield (1968)
34 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. 639 - Matthews v. Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Co. · 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards · 146 W. Va. 484 - Graham v. Wriston · 140 W. Va. 327 - Puffer v. Hub Cigar Store, Inc. · 130 W. Va. 362 - Adkins v. Aetna Life Insurance
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fundamental legal principle is that negligence to be actionable must be the proximate cause of the injury complained of and must be such as might have been reasonably expected to produce an injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Proximate cause is a vital and an essential element of actionable negligence and must be proved to warrant a recovery in an action based on negligence.”
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.