207 W. Va. 672 - Armor v. Lantz’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · Ansari v. Pahlavi · 194 W. Va. 52 - Williams v. Precision Coil, 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ntrinsie 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[a] joint venture or, as it is sometimes referred to, a joint adventure, is an association of two or more persons to carry out a single business enterprise for profit, for which purpose they combine their property, money, effects, skill, and knowledge. It arises out of a contractual relationship between the parties. The contract may be oral or written, express or implied." Syl. pt. 2, Price v. Halstead , 177 W.Va. 592 , 355 S.E.2d 380 (1987).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]embers of a joint venture are ... jointly and severally liable for all obligations pertaining to the venture, and the actions of the joint venture bind the individual co-venturers.”
2 later decisions 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.