Belcher v. Goins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting in analogous context of loss of parental consortium actions that “[a] claim for parental consortium ordinarily must be joined with the injured parent’s action against the alleged tortfeasor”
• ‘‘the [West Virginia] legislature has implic- itly recognized legal entitlement to parent consortium in nonfatal injury cases by explicitly recognizing entitle- ment to parental consortium in wrongful death cases’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Roberts v. Williamson
  Texas Supreme Court· 2003-07-03· cited 323×
• Bowen v. Kil-Kare, Inc.
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1992-02-26· cited 250×
• Susie Myers Perkins, Administratrix of the Estate of John David Perkins, Jr., Deceased v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-04-18· cited 229×
• Mendillo v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-08-25· cited 190×
• Kincaid v. Mangum
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-06-10· cited 123×
• Kessel v. Leavitt
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-07-22· cited 122×
• Courtney v. Courtney
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-12-19· cited 103×
• Gibson v. West Virginia Department of Highways
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-05-24· cited 87×
• Giuliani v. Guiler
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1997-10-02· cited 76×
• United States v. David Wilcox
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-05-29· cited 74×
• High v. Howard
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1992-06-24· cited 69×
• Marlin v. Bill Rich Construction, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-11-15· cited 66×
• Heldreth v. Marrs
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-12-14· cited 64×
• Gilman v. Choi
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-01-25· cited 43×
• Poling v. Motorists Mutual Insurance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-10-28· cited 38×
• Smith v. Vilvarajah
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2000-11-17· cited 37×
• Estate of Verba Ex Rel. Nolan v. Ghaphery
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2001-07-25· cited 36×
• Hyman & Armstrong, P.S.C. v. Gunderson
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-11-26· cited 33×
• Glover v. Narick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-01-10· cited 21×
• Keele Ex Rel. Kelle v. St. Vincent Hospital & Health Care
  Montana Supreme Court· 1993-05-06· cited 16×

Cites

52 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-03-23· cited 292×
• Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-07-10· cited 279×
• Ferriter v. Daniel O'Connell's Sons, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1980-09-09· cited 249×
• Borer v. American Airlines, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1977-05-06· cited 198×
• Masaki v. General Motors Corp.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1989-09-20· cited 188×
• Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-03· cited 186×
• De Angelis v. Lutheran Medical Center
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-03-29· cited 183×
• Norwest v. Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1982-10-05· cited 170×
• Lee v. Colorado Department of Health
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-05-02· cited 145×
• Berger v. Weber
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1981-03-30· cited 143×
• Ueland v. Pengo Hydra-Pull Corp.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-11-08· cited 135×
• Lee v. Comer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1976-05-18· cited 115×
• State Automobile Mutual Insurance v. Youler
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-07-20· cited 112×
• Hay v. Medical Center Hosp. of Vermont
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1985-04-26· cited 111×
• General Electric Company v. Bush
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1972-06-20· cited 107×
• Audubon-Exira Ready Mix, Inc. v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1983-06-15· cited 99×
• Villareal v. State, Dept. of Transp.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-04-20· cited 92×
• Hoffman v. Dautel
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1962-01-20· cited 74×
• Russell v. Salem Transportation Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1972-10-24· cited 74×
• Versland v. Caron Transport
  Montana Supreme Court· 1983-10-21· cited 59×