124 W. Va. 340 - Bailey Lumber Co. v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2018
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 119 W. Va. 501 - Highland v. Davis · Lockhead v. Berkeley Springs Waterworks & Improvement Co. · 103 W. Va. 1 - Georgia Lumber Co. v. Harrison Construction Co. · 81 W. Va. 222 - Pittsburgh Steel Product Co. v. Huntington Masonic Temple Ass'n
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.
“The affidavit is a requisite part of the notice to the landowner. ... We believe that the requirement of an affidavit is implicit in the statute.”
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.