152 W. Va. 714 - Condry v. Pope’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williamson v. Jones · Waldron v. Harvey · 129 W. Va. 487 - Pownall v. Cearfoss · 85 W. Va. 744 - Carter v. Price · 84 W. Va. 449 - Pittsburgh & West Virginia Gas Co. v. Pentress Gas Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where legal title is involved in a case, the statute of limitation applicable thereto governs ordinarily even if the legal title be involved in an equitable proceeding and if such statute does not bar the right to the land, laches can not bar such right. Laches applies to equitable demands where the statute of limitation does not.””
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.