Woodall v. Darst’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 130 W. Va. 645 - State Ex Rel. Adkins v. Sims (1947), 149 W. Va. 740 - State Ex Rel. Appalachian Power Co. v. Gainer (1965)
73 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Loan Association v. Topeka · Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · Fallbrook Irrigation Dist v. Bradley · United States v. Realty Co. · Strickley v. Highland Boy Gold Mining Co.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who shall without fault or neglect on his part be wounded or disabled while performing any lawfully ordered duty.”
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.