150 W. Va. 709 - State Road Commission v. Oakes’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 152 W. Va. 91 - Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. (1968), 153 W. Va. 222 - United Fuel Gas Company v. Battle (1969)
33 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 147 W. Va. 484 - Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co. · 149 W. Va. 622 - Bluefield Supply Co. v. Frankel's Appliances, Inc. · 148 W. Va. 515 - Lewis v. Dils Motor Company · 148 W. Va. 176 - CENTRAL ELECTRIC CREDIT CORPORATION v. Fields · Daugherty v. Ellis
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The finding of a trial court upon facts submitted to it in lieu of a jury will be given the same weight as the verdict of a jury and will not be disturbed by an appellate court unless the evidence plainly and decidedly preponderates against such finding.”
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.