177 W. Va. 485 - Pack v. Van Meter’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 182 W. Va. 276 - King v. Kayak Manufacturing Corp. (1989), 188 W. Va. 356 - State v. Chase Securities, Inc. (1992)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 163 W. Va. 332 - Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co. · 159 W. Va. 621 - Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. · 167 W. Va. 597 - Jenkins v. J. C. Penney Casualty Ins. · Finnegan v. Royal Realty Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every employer and every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly, or a public building, now or hereafter constructed, shall so construct, repair and maintain the same as to render it reasonably safe.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder W.Va.Code, 21-3-1, the employer and the owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly, or a public building is affixed with a statutory responsibility to maintain such place in a reasonably safe condition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The parties do not raise and, therefore, we do not address the question of whether in view of our comparative negligence law established in Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co., 163 W.Va. 332 , 256 S.E.2d 879 (1979), there is a need to retain the doctrine of assumption of risk. There is a split of authority on this issue elsewhere. Annot., 16 A.L.R.4th 700 (1982).””
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.