146 W. Va. 83 - Fisher v. Reamer’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2016
4 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 144 W. Va. 72 - State Ex Rel. Graney v. Sims · 123 W. Va. 608 - Bank of Marlinton v. McLaughlin · 144 W. Va. 149 - Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. City of Morgantown · 10 Colo. App. 200 - Cary Hardware Co. v. McCarty · 136 W. Va. 514 - Means v. Kidd
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`. . . [if the question is] whether a particular case is within the statute [then] a strict construction should be applied; but where it appears from the case that there is a clear right to the lien under the statute and the controversy is whether the lienor has properly proceeded to establish his lien, a liberal construction should be applied. [ Bailey Lumber Co. v. General Construction Co., 101 W.Va. 567, 577 , 133 S.E. 135, 139 .]'" Fisher v. Reamer, 146 W.Va. 83, 89 , 118 S.E.2d 76, 79 (1961).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 38-2-34. “Time within which suit to enforce lien may be brought. . . Unless a suit in chancery to enforce any lien authorized by this article is commenced within six months after the person desiring to avail himself thereof shall have filed his notice in the clerk’s office, as hereinbefore provided in this article, such lien shall be discharged ...” (Emphasis added).”
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.