159 W. Va. 917 - Bates v. Sirk’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
states following
April 2008
most recently cited
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2008
9 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. · 149 W. Va. 65 - Nesbitt v. Flaccus · 155 W. Va. 547 - Skeen v. C AND G CORPORATION · 151 W. Va. 322 - Smith v. Edward M. Rude Carrier Corp.
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.