116 W. Va. 541 - Travis v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1954
6 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 Wilson v. Kennedy · Tierney v. United Pocahontas Coal Co. · 115 W. Va. 25 - Charlton v. Chevrolet Motor Co. · Johnson v. Sanger · 98 W. Va. 104 - Page v. Huddleston
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under West Virginia Constitution, Article VIII, section 24, and Code 1931, 7-1-3, county courts are vested with primary jurisdiction to settle accounts of personal representatives, but such jurisdiction may be interrupted by equity where there is involved some question of equitable cognizance as, for example, the construction of a will, fraud, waste, and the like.””
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.