175 W. Va. 227 - White v. Lock’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2001
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 103 S. Ct. 247 - Beneficial Finance of Kansas, Inc. v. United States · Poythress v. Duncan · 49 Cal. 2d 652 - Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co. · 168 W. Va. 306 - Addair v. Bryant · 148 W. Va. 380 - Hatten v. Mason Realty Company
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The confusion derives from the injection into the trial of an unnecessary issue. If the defendant acted without negligence, then she would not be liable, and there would be no need for the jury to decide the question of unavoidability. The instruction may mislead the jury into thinking that unavoidability is ‘a separate ground of nonliability’ apart from the absence of negligence or proximate cause. Butigan v. Yellow Cab Co., supra 320 P.2d at 505.” White , 175 W.Va. 232 at n. *, 332 S.E.2d at 245 n. *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.