151 W. Va. 449 - Hall v. Groves’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably 158 W. Va. 741 - Long v. City of Weirton (1975), Jordan v. Bero (1974)
1 federal appellate · 58 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 148 W. Va. 595 - Richmond v. Campbell · 144 W. Va. 819 - Shreve v. Faris · Moss v. Campbell's Creek Railroad · 148 W. Va. 710 - Winters v. Campbell · 80 W. Va. 703 - Chafin v. Norfolk & Western Railway 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where liability is not in issue and the verdict of the jury does not cover the actual pecuniary loss properly proved and it can be clearly ascertained that the verdict is inadequate, such verdict will be set aside.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Minnick · Snyder v. Woods““.. . and suddenly and without any opportunity of the plaintiff to protest or prevent the defendant Groves from so doing, he drove the automobile off the highway and to and against the abutment located near the right edge of the road and caused the injuries of which the plaintiff complains. There is, however, nothing in the evidence to indicate that the defendant operated the automobile in a negligent manner until at and immediately before the collision occurred; and the conduct of the plaintiff in accompanying the defendant upon the trip does not of itself constitute either contributory negligence or assumption of risk.” Id., pp. 455, 456, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not include as elements of damages all the items ... the amount of which is definite and certain, are not controverted, and constitute a special pecuniary loss by the plaintiff ... and award[s] the plaintiff damages in an amount materially less than that to which the plaintiff is justly entitled, as shown by the evidence, [and is therefore] wholly inadequate in amount.”
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.