Hartley v. Crede’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 158 W. Va. 741 - Long v. City of Weirton (1975), 173 W. Va. 43 - State v. Kopa (1983)
62 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. · 138 W. Va. 613 - Wilson v. Edwards · 137 W. Va. 1 - State v. Blankenship · 138 W. Va. 166 - Thrasher v. Amere Gas Utilities Co. · Snyder v. Wheeling Electrical 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proximate cause of an injury is the last negligent act contributing to the injury and without which the injury would not have occurred.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * An exception to the general rule occurs and applies when, through entrapment, hostility or surprise, a party who offers a witness is misled and prejudiced by his testimony and, in such instances, such party may impeach his own witness to the extent permitted by the trial court in the proper exercise of its discretion. State v. Blankenship, 137 W.Va. 1 , 69 S.E. 2d 398 ; 70 C.J., 793; 58 Am.Jur., Witnesses, Sections 798, 799. See also State v. Wolfe, 109 W.Va. 590 , 156 S.E. 56 , 74 A.L. R. 1039; State v. Justice, 107 W.Va. 490 , 148 S.E. 843 ; State v. Swiger, 105 W.Va. 358 , 143 S.E. 85 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crum v. Ward“It is reversible error to give an instruction which tends to mislead and confuse the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yates v. Mancari
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.