136 W. Va. 503 - Acker v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably 142 W. Va. 716 - Lieberman v. Lieberman (1957), 158 W. Va. 504 - Thornton v. Charleston Area Medical Center (1975)
24 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 131 W. Va. 88 - Kanawha Banking & Trust Co. v. Gilbert · 130 W. Va. 121 - Bennett v. Neff · 123 W. Va. 608 - Bank of Marlinton v. McLaughlin · 121 W. Va. 215 - Carroll v. Fetty · 122 W. Va. 727 - Lafollette v. Croft
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Mere delay will not bar relief in equity on the ground of laches. “Laches is a delay in the assertion of a known right which works to the disadvantage of another, or such delay as will warrant the presumption that the party has waived his right.” Bank of Marlinton v. McLaughlin, 123 W.Va. 608 [ 17 S.E.2d 213 (1941) ], Pt. 2, syl.’ Pt. 2 Syl., Hoglund v. Curtis, 134 W.Va. [735, 61 S.E.2d 642 (1950) ]””
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.