210 W. Va. 682 - Bradshaw v. Soulsby’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 221 W. Va. 70 - State v. Mullens (2007), 227 W. Va. 666 - MacE v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2011)
37 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 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · 152 W. Va. 571 - State v. Elder · Moreno v. Sterling Drug, Inc. · 199 W. Va. 706 - Gaither v. City Hospital, Inc. · 149 W. Va. 783 - Morgan v. Grace Hospital, 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the two year limitation upon the bringing of an action for wrongful death is an integral part of the statute itself and creates a condition precedent to the bringing of an action which bears no relationship to statutes of limitation[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[s]tare decisis rests upon the important principle that the law by which people are governed should be `fixed, definite, and known,' and not subject to frequent modification in the absence of compelling reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]very such [wrongful death] action shall be commenced within two years after the death of such deceased person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.