Seagraves v. Legg

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that common-law loss of consortium action “was based on the theory that the wife was a chattel, or property of the husband”
• absence of wife’s right to sue for loss of consortium resulting from personal injury to husband

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rodriguez v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
  California Supreme Court· 1974-08-21· cited 260×
• Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-03· cited 186×
• Millington v. Southeastern Elevator Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1968-07-02· cited 180×
• Peter Igneri and Theresa Igneri v. Cie. De Transports Oceaniques
  Second Circuit· 1963-09-18· cited 105×
• Fruehauf Corp. v. Huntington Moving & Storage Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-09-09· cited 101×
• Moran v. Quality Aluminum Casting Co.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1967-04-28· cited 90×
• Thill v. Modern Erecting Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1969-09-19· cited 88×
• Baldwin v. Butcher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1971-07-02· cited 69×
• Gilman v. Choi
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-01-25· cited 43×
• State of West Virginia v. Orville M. Hutton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-06-16· cited 35×
• Hensley v. West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-10-02· cited 33×
• Rush v. Great American Insurance Company
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1964-03-05· cited 33×
• Hoffman v. Dautel
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1964-01-25· cited 30×
• Manor Care Inc. v. Tom Douglas
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-06-18· cited 27×
• Virginia F. Carey v. Cecil R. Foster
  Fourth Circuit· 1965-05-14· cited 26×
• Josephine Miskunas v. Union Carbide Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1968-09-10· cited 24×
• State Ex Rel. Van Nguyen v. Berger
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-02-11· cited 22×
• Daniel W. Thomas v. William Ray McDermitt and State Farm Mutual Insurance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-10-07· cited 20×
• Lombardo v. DF Frangioso & Co., Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-05-18· cited 13×
• Modular Building Consultants of West Virginia, Inc. v. Poerio, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-05-21· cited 13×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hitaffer v. Argonne Co., Inc
  D.C. Circuit· 1950-10-16· cited 206×
• Smither and Company, Inc. v. Franciska T. Coles
  D.C. Circuit· 1957-06-10· cited 126×
• Brown v. Georgia-Tennessee Coaches, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1953-06-16· cited 82×
• Ripley v. Ewell
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1952-11-14· cited 69×
• Deshotel v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
  California Supreme Court· 1958-07-31· cited 64×
• Thibodeaux v. J. Ray McDermott & Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1960-03-08· cited 58×
• Cooney v. Moomaw
  D. Nebraska· 1953-01-15· cited 48×
• Walker v. Robertson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1956-03-06· cited 46×
• Gist v. French
  California Court of Appeal· 1955-10-17· cited 44×
• Smith v. United Construction Workers, District 50
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1960-07-14· cited 34×
• Shreve v. Faris
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-12-01· cited 32×
• Luther v. Maple
  Eighth Circuit· 1958-01-10· cited 28×
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. v. Lunsford
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1960-09-08· cited 13×
• State v. Arbogast
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-02-21· cited 11×
• Kuhn v. Cooper
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1955-05-31· cited 9×
• Dolly Guyton v. Solomon Dehydrating Company, Incorporated
  Eighth Circuit· 1962-05-04· cited 3×