125 W. Va. 600 - Boggs v. Boggs’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1989
7 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 Fry v. Feamster · Dingess v. Huntington Development & Gas Co. · 118 W. Va. 71 - Winfree v. Dearth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The establishment of a trust ... must necessarily challenge the written words of a solemn instrument, and in the instant proceeding written words of unequivocal meaning.... From the evidence as detailed it is clear that the record abounds in conflicts of evidence on the material issue. If a trust of the character alleged by plaintiffs actually exists, it must necessarily have arisen at the time that the grantor delivered the instant deed to defendant. The record contains no testimony which shows any such understanding between the grantor and the grantee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Linger v. Rohr
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.