Conrad v. Wertz’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2010
4 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 149 W. Va. 78 - Jackson v. Cockill · 146 W. Va. 100 - Stamper v. Bannister · 139 W. Va. 480 - Alloy v. Hennis Freight Lines, Inc. · Railing v. Case
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the injured party dies before having begun any such action and it is not at the time of his death barred by the applicable statute of limitations. . . , such action may be begun by the personal representative of the injured party against the wrongdoer. . . . Any such action shall be instituted within the same period of time that would have been applicable had the injured party not died.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... in addition to the damages awarded pursuant to the foregoing provisions hereof, the personal representative of the deceased shall be entitled to recover the reasonable funeral expenses of such deceased person and the reasonable hospital, medical and other expenses incurred as a result of the wrongful act, neglect or default of the defendant or defendants which resulted in death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when an action is brought by a person injured for damage caused by the wrongful act of any person and pending the action the person injured died as a result of the wrongful act, the action should not abate by reason of his death but might be revived in the name of his personal representative.”
1 later decision 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.