139 W. Va. 596 - Marion v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2017
14 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 Ewing, Ind. Exs. v. Wm. L. Foley, Inc. · Wahl v. Schmidt · Gardiner v. Rogers · Shepard v. Creamer · Kirchner v. Muller
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.
“A trust estate is ordinarily not liable for torts committed by the trustee, when he is entirely free from the_control of the beneficiary. And such a trustee is personally liable to third persons for his torts' in failing to keep the trust property in repair, irrespective of his right to reimbursement.”
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.