124 W. Va. 773 - Barnes v. Warth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1970
18 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 124 W. Va. 486 - White Sulphur Springs, Inc. v. Ripley · 113 W. Va. 163 - McComas v. Warth · 69 W. Va. 653 - French v. Bennett
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the provisions of Code, 56-4-56, a trial chancellor cannot enlarge the time for filing answer to a bill of complaint after a- demurrer or plea thereto has been overruled, unless motion for such enlargement is made within fifteen days from the entry of the order overruling demurrer or plea.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.