152 W. Va. 540 - Davis v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2018
1 federal appellate · 18 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 144 W. Va. 537 - Davis v. Fire Creek Fuel Company · 142 W. Va. 135 - Workman v. Wynne · 147 W. Va. 313 - Burdette v. Burdette · 149 W. Va. 197 - McCoy v. Cohen · 95 W. Va. 490 - Cavendish v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. 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.
“(2) Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down as may be necessary for safe operation; “(3) Exceed the speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or property;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen negligence is relied upon as the basis of an action for damages, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant was guilty of primary negligence and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the injuries of which the plaintiff complains.”
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.