160 W. Va. 129 - King v. Bittinger’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 175 W. Va. 406 - James G. v. Caserta (1985), 171 W. Va. 97 - Wells v. Smith (1982)
58 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 148 W. Va. 595 - Richmond v. Campbell · 151 W. Va. 449 - Hall v. Groves · 158 W. Va. 997 - Kesner v. Trenton · 144 W. Va. 819 - Shreve v. Faris · 155 W. Va. 547 - Skeen v. C AND G CORPORATION
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[w]here a verdict does not include elements of damage which are specifically proved in uncontroverted amounts and a substantial amount as compensation for injuries and the consequent pain and suffering, the verdict is inadequate and will be set aside. Hall v. Groves, 151 W.Va. 449 , 153 S.E.2d 165 (1967).’ King v. Bittinger, 160 W.Va. 129 [, 136], 231 S.E.2d 239, 243 (1976).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Consortium is a right which the law recognizes in a husband, arising from the marital union, to have performance by the wife of all those duties and obligations in respect of him which she undertook when she entered into the marriage relation, including the right to the conjugal fellowship of the wife, her company, cooperation and aid in every conjugal relation, fellowship and assistance of the wife, and comfort in her society as to which the right of the husband is peculiar and exclusive; and loss of consortium is the loss of any and all such rights.””
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.