143 W. Va. 770 - McCauley v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1997
11 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 140 W. Va. 422 - Goetz v. Old National Bank of Martinsburg · Weiss v. Soto · Weiss v. Soto · Farish v. Wayman · 125 W. Va. 702 - Hedrick v. Hedrick
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is a devise or bequest to one in general terms and there is a subsequent limitation over of what remains at the first taker’s death, if there is also given to the first taker an unlimited and unrestricted power of absolute disposal, express or implied, the devise or bequest to the first taker is construed to pass a fee, and the limitation over is invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Black
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.