171 W. Va. 185 - Noone v. Priceâs Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions â most recently April 2015
6 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 â not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 67 W. Va. 39 - Walker v. Strosnider · Gorton v. Schofield · Prete v. Cray · Arnold v. Arnold · Smith v. Howard
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each â the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
â[W]hen an actor who removes natural lateral support substitutes artificial support to replace it, such as a retaining wall, the wall then becomes an incident to and a burden on the land upon which it is constructed, and subsequent owners and possessors have an obligation to maintain it.â
1 later decision quote this exact passageâis lateral when the supported and supporting lands are divided by a vertical plane.â
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated â 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.