146 W. Va. 795 - Lusher v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 173 W. Va. 102 - McGinnis v. Cayton (1984), 148 W. Va. 176 - CENTRAL ELECTRIC CREDIT CORPORATION v. Fields (1963)
23 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 Smith v. New Dixie Lines, Inc. · 131 W. Va. 10 - Raines v. Faulkner · 145 W. Va. 178 - Rollins v. Daraban · 142 W. Va. 716 - Lieberman v. Lieberman · 146 W. Va. 511 - Edmiston v. Wilson
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.
“The jurisdiction of equity to reform written instruments, where there is a mutual mistake, or mistake on one side and fraud or inequitable conduct on the other, if the evidence be sufficiently cogent to thoroughly satisfy the mind of the court, is fully established and undoubted.”
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.