172 W. Va. 698 - Hoffman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2004
14 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 Grafton v. . Moir · Craig v. Kennedy · Rogerson v. Shepherd · Jones Et Ux v. Edwards Et Ux · Watts v. C. I. Johnson & Bowman Real Estate Corp.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhere the width of a right of way is not specified in the grant, nor determinable therefrom, the scope and purpose of the deed creating it, the situation and use of the property, and the intent of the parties will be considered, so as to provide a reasonable, safe and convenient way for the purposes for which it was intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where one acquires an easement over the property of another by an express grant, the use of that easement must be confined to the terms and purposes of the grant.””
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.