124 W. Va. 290 - Wolfe v. Landers’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2013
9 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 79 W. Va. 389 - William James Sons Co. v. Hutchinson · Stephen Putney Shoe Co. v. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad · Robinson v. Edgell · 99 W. Va. 388 - Neekamp v. Huntington Chamber of Commerce · 85 W. Va. 645 - Watson-Loy Coal Co. v. Monroe Coal Mining 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f this were a case between the Charlton Development Company and its grantee, a showing that the restriction inserted in the deed was placed there by mutual mistake or through fraud might justify a reformation of the deed. But that is not asked for, and probably could not be granted to the prejudice of subsequent purchasers of lots in the same subdivision, and who made purchases in reliance on the covenant appearing in the deed as executed and recorded.”
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.