178 W. Va. 543 - Oakes v. Oxygen Therapy Services’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2014
8 federal appellate · 2 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 165 W. Va. 305 - Shanholtz v. Monongahela Power Co. · 177 W. Va. 427 - Paul v. National Life · 177 W. Va. 648 - New v. Tac & C Energy, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The parties specifically agreed in their contract that the employment relationship would be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland. It is mere happenstance that the [plaintiff] was in a West Virginia hospital when he received news of the termination of his employment. [Plaintiff]’s claim for “retaliatory discharge” arises from his filing a Maryland workers’ compensation claim and not a West Virginia workers’ compensation claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) the needs of the interstate and international systems,”
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.