157 W. Va. 381 - Thaxton v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2017
18 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. 575 - Lester v. Rose · Greenwalt v. McCardell · Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Kirtley · 148 W. Va. 275 - Pruitt v. Fetty · 97 W. Va. 368 - Pan Coal Co. v. Garland Pocahontas Coal 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a tenant in common, claiming in good faith to be the sole owner of the oil and gas intex-est, leases the property to a third person, the nonconsenting cotenant may recognize the lease and x-eceive his fractional interest in the royalty or x-ejeet the lease and receive his fractional part of the oil or gas produced, less his propox-tionate part of the cost of discovery and production.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where a party stands by and sees another who, in good faith, deals with property inconsistent with the first person’s interest and that person makes no objection, he is estopped to deny the validity of the action on the part of the second person.” Thaxton v. Beard, 157 W. Va. 381, 387 , 201 S.E.2d 298 (1973).”
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.