159 W. Va. 871 - Ellard v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 167 W. Va. 779 - Ratlief v. Yokum (1981), 172 W. Va. 435 - Ilosky v. Michelin Tire Corp. (1983)
19 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 Kistler v. Halsey · Jordan v. Bero · 151 W. Va. 449 - Hall v. Groves · 148 W. Va. 281 - Pygman v. Helton · 144 W. Va. 819 - Shreve v. Faris
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One claiming dam ages for loss of wages is not barred from recovering on the claim merely because he was paid in accordance with a sick leave policy or similar plan while away from work.”); Syllabus Point 3, King v. Bittinger, 160 W.Va. 129 , 231 S.E.2d 239 (1976) (same). . Ellard v. Harvey, 159 W.Va. at 879, 231 S.E.2d at 344 (”
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.