150 W. Va. 678 - Griffith v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2013
19 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. · Morales v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp. · 121 W. Va. 115 - Webb v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. · 146 W. Va. 484 - Graham v. Wriston · 129 W. Va. 267 - Divita v. Atlantic Trucking Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no showing that the door was in any wise defective. The statement that the truck was “kinda tricky” and that the door sometimes rattled on former occasions does not establish a defect in the door; and the evidence that the door came open on previous occasions, the times and conditions of which are not disclosed, without more, also does not show that the door was defective or that the defendants knew or had reason to believe that it was defective at the time of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Setser v. Browning“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.... The driver of the truck in the case at bar had no reason to expect or foresee that, in making the turn at and upon the intersection, the door would come open while she was engaged in making such turn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Setser v. Browning“only one inference may be drawn from them by reasonable minds.”
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.