91 W. Va. 60 - Stallard v. Stepp’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1973
3 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 Simpkins v. White · Security Bank Note Co. v. Shrader · Caroway v. Cochran · 81 W. Va. 205 - Keystone Manufacturing Co. v. Close · 78 W. Va. 721 - Bachinsky v. Federal Coal & Coke 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only issue before the jury in a case of detinue is the right to the possession of the property sued for. This we decided in effect in Caroway v. Cochran, supra [ 71 W. Va. 698 , 77 S. E. 278 ]. That case holds that in an action of detinue there can be no cross action against the plaintiff for compensation for the care and keep of the property, but such a claim gives right of detention, the amount thereof being the subject of a judgment and not a matter in issue in the detinue case. *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacPherson v. Green
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.