156 W. Va. 1 - Cross v. Noland’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 148 W. Va. 142 - Evans v. Farmer · 145 W. Va. 408 - Spurlin v. Nardo · 147 W. Va. 352 - Payne v. Kinder · 130 W. Va. 466 - Wright v. Valan · 142 W. Va. 165 - Mulroy v. Co-Operative Transit Company
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The violation of a municipal ordinance creates a prima facie case of negligence and the determination as to whether there was in fact a violation and whether the violation was the proximate cause of the injury is within the province of the jury.””
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.