144 W. Va. 575 - Baker v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably 150 W. Va. 709 - State Road Commission v. Oakes (1966), 152 W. Va. 233 - Fanti v. Welsh (1968)
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 139 W. Va. 884 - Holland v. Flanagan · 141 W. Va. 27 - Monk v. Gilllenwater · Baker v. Jackson · Kane & Keyser Hardware Co. v. Cobb · 108 W. Va. 81 - Browning v. Browning
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.
“In order that a road, by virtue of Section 3, Article 1, Chapter 17, Code, 1931, shall be conclusively presumed to be established as a public road, it must have been used by the public for a period of ten years or more and public moneys or labor, duly authorized by a public agency or official empowered to maintain, repair or accept such road, must be expended on it; and the occasional expenditure of public money or the occasional performance of public labor on such road, which is not so authorized, even though such road has been used by the public for ten years or more, does not satisfy the requirements of the statute or render effective the statutory presumption of its establishment as a public road.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The findings of a commissioner in chancery, on questions of fact, should generally be sustained unless not warranted by any reasonable view of the evidence and such findings are entitled to peculiar weight in an appellate court when they have been confirmed by the decree from which an appeal has been granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quigley v. Atkins“Any road shall be conclusively presumed to have been established when it has been used by the public for a period of ten years or more, and public moneys or labor have been expended thereon, whether there be any record of its conveyance dedication or appropriation to public use or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wachter v. Fowler
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.