205 W. Va. 717 - Sipple v. Starr’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2019
16 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 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 159 W. Va. 621 - Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. · 177 W. Va. 592 - Price v. Halstead · 194 W. Va. 705 - Jividen v. Law · Pacific Fire Insurance v. Kenny Boiler & Manufacturing 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have noted that, intrinsic to a joint venture, is the concept of mutual efforts to promote the business, the success of which would accrue to the benefit of all parties: To constitute a joint adventure the parties must combine their property, money, efforts, skill, or knowledge, in some common undertaking of a special or particular nature, but the contributions of the respective parties need not be equal or of the same character. There must, however, be some contribution by each party of something promotive of the enterprise. Pownall v. Cearfoss, 129 W.Va. 487, 497-498 , 40 S.E.2d 886 , 893 (1946) (citation omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are by no means suggesting that just any mutually beneficial commercial relationship ... rises to the level of a joint venture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“property, money, efforts, skill [and] knowledge,”
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.