151 W. Va. 462 - Steinbrecher v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 161 W. Va. 603 - John W. Lodge Distributing Co. v. Texaco, Inc. (1978), 155 W. Va. 475 - Wilkinson v. Searls (1971)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 133 W. Va. 474 - Bischoff v. Francesa · 148 W. Va. 411 - Konchesky v. S. J. Groves & Sons Co. · 147 W. Va. 704 - State Ex Rel. Coral Pools, Inc. v. Knapp · 140 W. Va. 791 - Ward v. Smith · May v. Martin
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, the proper measure of damages in such cases involving building contracts is the cost of repairing the defects or completing the work and placing the construction in the condition it should have been in if properly done under the agreement contained in the building contract.” 151 W.Va. at 476 , 153 S.E.2d at 304 .”
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.