149 W. Va. 493 - Work v. Rogerson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably 154 W. Va. 397 - State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood (1970), 155 W. Va. 475 - Wilkinson v. Searls (1971)
38 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 Simmons Creek Coal Co. v. Doran · 143 W. Va. 522 - Sands v. Security Trust Company · 144 W. Va. 583 - In Re Settlement of the Estate of McIntosh · 148 W. Va. 263 - State Ex Rel. Dandy v. Thompson · Simpson v. Edmiston
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the provisions of Code, 1931, 11-10-30 (now appearing in revised form as Code, 11A-3-8), property sold by the sheriff for nonpayment of taxes and purchased by the state became irredeemable at the expiration of one year [now eighteen months] from the date of such sale but the right to redeem arose again under the provisions of Code, 1931, 37-3-29 (now appearing in revised form as Code 11A-4-18), upon the institution of a suit by the commissioner of school lands to sell the property; and the right to redeem existed and continued until a sale and until a decree for the confirmation of the sale was made and entered by the court in such a suit, whether the state had obtained title to the property by purchase at a sheriffs sale or by forfeiture for nonentry.” Syllabus point 9.”
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.