177 W. Va. 441 - Ray v. Donohew’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2019
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Commonwealth of Virginia v. State of West Virginia · Mann v. . Munch Brewery · Despatch Oven Co. v. Rauenhorst · 123 W. Va. 608 - Bank of Marlinton v. McLaughlin · Bates v. Swiger
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[t]he doctrine of subrogation is that one who has the right to pay, and does pay, a debt which ought to have been paid by another is entitled to exercise all the remedies which the creditor possessed against that other.’ Syl. Pt. 1, Bassett v. Streight, 78 W.Va. 262 , 88 S.E. 848 (1916).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“right of subrogation can either be modified or extinguished through express contractual language.”
2 later decisions 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.