96 W. Va. 82 - Reiser v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1989
1 federal appellate · 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 Manss-Owens Co. v. H. S. Owens & Son · Colby v. Reed · Rowan v. Chenoweth · Corder v. Talbott · Osborne v. Francis
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.
“Our decisions say that in such cases absolute certainty as to the amount of damages is not required, but that reasonable certainty only is necessary, and that substantial damages may be recovered, though the loss can be stated only approximately. Hurxthal v. [St. Lawrence] Boom [& Mfg.] Co., 65 W.Va. 346 , 64 S.E. 355 ; Manss-Owens Co. v. H. S. Owens & Son, 129 Va. 183 , 105 S.E. 543 .”
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.