184 W. Va. 255 - Rice v. Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2013
20 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 166 W. Va. 581 - Bond v. City of Huntington · 155 W. Va. 875 - McDaniel v. Romano · 148 W. Va. 595 - Richmond v. Campbell · 160 W. Va. 129 - King v. Bittinger · 180 W. Va. 78 - Moore v. Goode
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every such action for wrongful death the jury, or in a case tried without a jury, the court, may award such damages as to it may seem fair and just, and, after making provision for those expenditures, if any, specified in subdivision (2), subsection (c) of this section, shall direct that the remaining net damages be distributed in accordance with the decedent’s will or, if there be no will, in accordance with the laws of descent and distribution as set forth in chapter forty-two [§ 42-1-1 et seq.] of this code.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“2. West Virginia Code § 55-7-6 (1985) did not require that parents, brothers, or sisters be financially dependent upon the decedent in order to receive ‘compensation for reasonably expected loss of income of the decedent, and services, protection, care and assistance provided by the decedent. ...’ 3. In a wrongful death action, a showing of financial dependency upon the decedent is not a prerequisite to recovery of the damages specified in W.Va.Code § 55-7 — 6(c)(1) (1989).”
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.