Lee v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Dubay v. Irish (1988), 162 W. Va. 857 - Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co. (1979)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 159 W. Va. 236 - State v. Spadafore · 156 W. Va. 444 - Chase v. Greyhound Lines, Inc.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An unemancipated minor may maintain an action against his parent for personal injuries sustained in a motor ve-hide accident caused by the negligence of said parent and to that extent the parental immunity doctrine is abrogated in this jurisdiction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.