128 W. Va. 94 - Johnston v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably 146 W. Va. 511 - Edmiston v. Wilson (1961), 146 W. Va. 795 - Lusher v. Sparks (1961)
32 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 Troll v. Carter · 20 W. Va. 398 - Campbell v. Fetterman's Heirs · Clark v. Sayers · Summerfield v. White · Robinson v. Braiden
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reformation of a deed or other writing by a court of equity on the ground of a mutual mistake of the parties, or a mistake of the scrivener, will not be decreed where to do so would prejudice the right of an innocent purchaser for value of the property covered by the deed sought to be reformed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A court of equity has power and jurisdiction to decree the reformation of a deed executed through a mutual mistake of the parties as to what is intended therein, or through a mistake of a scrivener in failing to make the agreement express the mutual intention of the parties, where such reformation is sought as between the parties, or the successor of either, who, at the date he acquired an interest in the property affected by such deed, had notice of the grounds on which reformation is sought.””
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.