State Ex Rel. Cox v. Sims

How courts have described this case

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

• plaintiff brought action against the State Road Commission for property loss caused by a garage fire
• plaintiff brought action against the State Road Commission for property loss caused by a garage fire
• court held that where a fire occurred in a garage and spread immediately to the clothing of a mechanic, the mechanic was not guilty of negligence in his unsuccessful efforts to extinguish or check the fire in the garage even though he initially ran outside to extinguish his own clothing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Robertson v. LeMaster
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-03-24· cited 108×
• Hartley v. Crede
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-07-27· cited 90×
• Matthews v. Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-07-15· cited 77×
• Puffer v. Hub Cigar Store, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-10-26· cited 57×
• Pygman v. Helton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-02-25· cited 44×
• Stenger v. Hope Natural Gas Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-03-23· cited 41×
• Edmonds v. Murphy
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1990-05-30· cited 39×
• State Ex Rel. Bumgarner v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-12-15· cited 34×
• McCoy v. Cohen
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-02-23· cited 33×
• Alexander v. Jennings
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1966-06-28· cited 27×
• Frye v. McCrory Stores Corporation
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-03-03· cited 26×
• State Ex Rel. Board of Governors of West Virginia University v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-06-08· cited 23×
• Moran v. Atha Trucking, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2001-01-16· cited 21×
• Davidson's, Inc. v. Scott
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-03-16· cited 17×
• Griffith v. Wood
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1966-06-28· cited 14×
• Reece v. Hall
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1956-12-18· cited 14×
• State Ex Rel. C & D Equipment Company v. Gainer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-04-14· cited 13×
• Miller v. Bolyard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1957-03-12· cited 12×
• State Ex Rel. Lippert v. Gainer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1961-11-28· cited 9×
• Limberg v. Lent
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1965-09-10· cited 8×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. Kellogg
  Supreme Court· 1877-04-30· cited 880×
• Scheffer v. Railroad Co.
  Supreme Court· 1882-04-10· cited 172×
• Price v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-03-28· cited 42×
• State Ex Rel. Catron v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-01-31· cited 38×
• Spence v. American Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-06-08· cited 33×
• Jones v. Hanbury
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-06-16· cited 27×
• Cleveland v. Danville Traction & Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-03-02· cited 24×
• Saunders v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-03-28· cited 23×
• Southern Ry. Co. v. Bell
  Fourth Circuit· 1940-08-09· cited 21×
• State Ex Rel. Jordan v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-03-28· cited 20×
• State Ex Rel. Utterback v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1952-02-05· cited 17×
• Dennis v. Odend'Hal-Monks Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1943-12-06· cited 15×
• Washington & Old Dominion Railway v. Weakley
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1924-12-18· cited 14×
• State v. Merritt
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-07-26· cited 10×
• State Ex Rel. Coole v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-01-31· cited 6×