175 W. Va. 492 - Rowan v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 171 W. Va. 607 - Robertson v. LeMaster · 157 W. Va. 391 - Wager v. Sine · 171 W. Va. 79 - Star Furniture Co. v. Pulaski Furniture Co. · 161 W. Va. 769 - Jividen v. Legg · 165 W. Va. 689 - Hovermale v. Berkeley Springs Moose Lodge No. 1483
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘To recover in an action based on negligence, the plaintiff must prove that the defendant was guilty of primary negligence and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the injury of which the plaintiff complains and if the plaintiff fails to establish such primary negligence the court should direct a verdict for the defendant.’ Point 1, Syllabus, Davis v. Cross, 152 W.Va. 540 [ 164 S.E.2d 899 (1968) ].”
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.