159 W. Va. 705 - Bennett v. Charles Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2008
20 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 131 W. Va. 391 - Cottrell v. Nurnberger · Cole v. Seamonds · 153 W. Va. 299 - Security National Bank & Trust Co. v. Willim · Smith v. Morton · 158 W. Va. 698 - Woman's Club of St. Albans v. James
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An easement, whether affirmative or negative, is an incorporeal hereditament and as such is a species of real property or land subject to the provisions of the statutes governing the conveyance or creation of estates in land. W.Va.Code, 36-1-1, and the Statute of Frauds, W.Va.Code, 36-1-3." (Citation omitted).”
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.