163 W. Va. 482 - Hinkle v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 176 W. Va. 368 - Cook v. Heck's Inc. (1986), 171 W. Va. 607 - Robertson v. LeMaster (1983)
44 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 149 W. Va. 166 - Roberts Ex Rel. Roberts v. Gale · 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. · 151 W. Va. 977 - Hundley v. Martinez · 143 W. Va. 250 - Jenkins v. Chatterton · 161 W. Va. 769 - Jividen v. Legg
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [A doctor] is required to exercise only such reasonable and ordinary skill and diligence as are ordinarily exercised by the average of the members of the profession in good standing in similar localities and in the same general line of practice, regard being had to the state of medical science at the time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Upon a motion to direct a verdict for the defendant, every reasonable and legitimate inference fairly arising from the testimony, when considered in its entirety, must be indulged in favorably to plaintiff; and the court must assume as true those facts which the jury may properly find under the evidence.””
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.