121 W. Va. 711 - Deitz v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1987
15 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 8 W. Va. 406 - Western Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. Peytona Cannel Coal Co. · Cook v. Totten · Hast v. Railroad Co. · Edwards v. Moundsville Land Co. · 103 W. Va. 81 - Rudolph v. Glendale Improvement Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When lands are laid off into lots, streets, and alleys, and a map plat thereof is made, all lots sold and conveyed by reference thereto, without reservation, carry with them, as appurtenant thereto, the right to the use of the easement in such streets and alleys necessary to the enjoyment and value of such lots.”
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.