Dimmey v. Wheeling & E. G. Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 168 W. Va. 306 - Addair v. Bryant (1981), 176 W. Va. 492 - Roberts v. Stevens Clinic Hospital, Inc. (1986)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Railway Company v. Whitton's Administrator · Holton v. Daly · Tucker v. Henniker · Sheff v. City of Huntington · Washington v. B. & O. R. R.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the jury is so satisfied, they are at liberty to allow “such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation” under the circumstances of each case. “They are not tied down to any precise rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fitch v. Huff
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.