155 W. Va. 409 - Arbaugh v. Raines’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 147 W. Va. 484 - Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co. · Steelsmith v. Gartlan · 148 W. Va. 82 - Davis v. Hardman · 78 W. Va. 433 - Carper v. United Fuel Gas Co. · Crawford v. Ritchey
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No estate of inheritance or freehold, or for a term of more than five years, in lands, or any other interest or term therein of any duration under which the whole or any part of the corpus of the estate may be taken, destroyed, or consumed, except for domestic use, shall be created or conveyed unless by deed or will.”
2 later decisions 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.