138 W. Va. 585 - Gray v. Marino’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 150 W. Va. 330 - Boggs v. Settle (1965), 192 W. Va. 585 - Michael v. Sabado (1994)
30 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 Hale v. Hale · Bartlett v. Patton · 40 W. Va. 169 - Crothers' Adm'r v. Crothers · 127 W. Va. 744 - Hurley v. Hurley · Peters v. Estate of Poro
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While, strictly speaking, an agreement to dispose of property by will cannot be enforced after the death of the promisor, courts of equity can do what is equivalent thereto by impressing a trust in favor of the promisee on the property in the hands of the heirs at law, personal representative or others who may claim title or be in possession thereof.”
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.