Major v. Hoppe’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1991
6 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 138 W. Va. 639 - Matthews v. Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Co. · Larson v. Meyer · Diggs v. Lail · Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. v. Olvera · Muskin v. Gerun
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, if Strike, realizing that Russillo was driving recklessly, saw the danger, appreciated it, and failed to give warning, if there was time to do so, he was contributorily negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arndt v. Russillo“The fact that [Strike's] ability to use due care for [his] own safety may have been influenced by the voluntary consumption of alcohol will not excuse [him] from its consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arndt v. Russillo
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.