183 W. Va. 34 - Hardman v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
May 2005
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent · Martin v. . Camp · Heinzman v. Fine, Fine, Legum & Fine · 38 N.C. App. 61 - Covington v. Rhodes · Marriage of Garrett v. Garrett
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where an attorney has been discharged, without fault on his part, from further services in a suit just begun by him under a contract for payment contingent upon successful prosecution of the suit, his measure of damages is not the contingent fee agreed upon, but the value of his services rendered; and in the absence of evidence of the reasonable value of such services, no recovery can be had.” Syllabus, Clayton v. Martin, 108 W.Va. 571 , 151 S.E. 855 (1930).”
3 later decisions 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.