Weaver v. Union Carbide Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that loss of consortium claim may be brought without tort claim under certain circumstances
• recognizing cause of action for malpractice where counselor has been sexually intimate with his/her patient
• “A majority of jurisdictions, like West Virginia, have abolished the tort of alienation of affections either by statute or judicial decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kessel v. Leavitt
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-07-22· cited 122×
• St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Love
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-08-31· cited 60×
• Matthew v. Herman
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-05-15· cited 57×
• McCracken v. Walls-Kaufman
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1998-09-10· cited 48×
• Bladen v. First Presbyterian Church of Sallisaw
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1993-07-20· cited 38×
• Webb v. West Virginia Board of Medicine
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-07-03· cited 38×
• Keister v. Talbott
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-04-02· cited 34×
• Rand v. Miller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-07-25· cited 31×
• Osborne v. United States
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-07-08· cited 24×
• Capper v. Gates
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-12-08· cited 24×
• Sisson v. Seneca Mental Health/Mental Retardation Council, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-04-17· cited 21×
• St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Vigilant Ins. Co.
  M.D. North Carolina· 1989-11-09· cited 16×
• Helsel v. Noellsch
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-06-17· cited 15×
• McElwain v. Van Beek
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1989-10-31· cited 15×
• Haygood v. Head
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-07-09· cited 14×
• St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Love
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1989-12-15· cited 13×
• Homer v. Long
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-01-06· cited 13×
• Speer v. Dealy
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1993-02-26· cited 11×
• Dupont v. United States
  S.D. West Virginia· 1997-11-03· cited 10×
• Dupree v. Giugliano
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2011-09-13· cited 8×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Destefano v. Grabrian
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1988-10-17· cited 349×
• Harless v. First National Bank in Fairmont
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-03-23· cited 292×
• Jerrie M. Simmons v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-12-09· cited 153×
• Horak v. Biris
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-01-23· cited 69×
• Cotton v. Kambly
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1980-11-19· cited 67×
• Lund v. Caple
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-01-12· cited 62×
• Rowe v. Bennett
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1986-08-27· cited 62×
• Sandra B. Andrews and Kenneth M. Andrews v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1984-07-10· cited 56×
• Aetna Life & Casualty Co. v. McCabe
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1983-01-31· cited 44×
• Roy v. Hartogs
  Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York· 1976-01-30· cited 44×
• King v. Bittinger
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1976-12-21· cited 39×
• Lenhard v. Butler
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-02-04· cited 39×
• Shreve v. Faris
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-12-01· cited 32×
• Richard H. v. LARRY D.
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-02-11· cited 25×
• Gasper v. Lighthouse, Inc.
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-12-08· cited 21×
• Wallace v. Wallace
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1971-11-02· cited 19×
• Spiess v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1988-01-27· cited 14×
• Kuhn v. Cooper
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1955-05-31· cited 9×