150 W. Va. 161 - Evans v. State Compensation Director’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1991
16 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 134 W. Va. 223 - Walk v. State Compensation Commissioner · 144 W. Va. 673 - Sutherland v. Kroger Company · 132 W. Va. 112 - Blosser v. State Compensation Commission · Foulkrod v. Standard Accident Insurance · 123 W. Va. 167 - Arbogast v. Shields
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.
““Where there is a causal connection between an injury received by an employee in the course of and resulting from his employment and his death, a claim for compensation by the widow of the deceased employee is compensable.””
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.