189 W. Va. 99 - LaPlaca v. Odeh’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2002
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 186 W. Va. 656 - Garnes v. Fleming Landfill, Inc. · 171 W. Va. 97 - Wells v. Smith · 129 W. Va. 591 - Toler v. Cassinelli · 129 W. Va. 621 - Ennis v. Brawley · Newman v. Robson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince the jury found [the employee] blameless from a legal point of view, and even entitled to a recovery, even if [the employer] had ratified his actions, that would have given rise to no imputation of liability to [the employer].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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