173 W. Va. 423 - Dunlap v. Hinkle’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Redco Construction v. Profile Properties, LLC (2012), Bright
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Conley v. Gibson · 160 W. Va. 530 - Chapman v. Kane Transfer Co., Inc. · 161 W. Va. 603 - John W. Lodge Distributing Co. v. Texaco, Inc. · 168 W. Va. 147 - Sticklen v. Kittle · 167 W. Va. 630 - Farley v. Zapata Coal 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unjust enrichment of a person occurs when he has and retains money or benefits which in justice and equity belong to another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Where the terms of a lease simply authorize a lessee to make improvements to the leased premises, although the improvements become the property of the lessor upon termination of the lease, a party with whom the lessee has contracted to make the improvements may not assert a mechanic's lien against the property interest of the lessor in the leased premises. See Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. v. Graham, 104 Ariz. 103 , 449 P.2d 31 (1968); Budget Electric Co. v. Strauss, 417 So.2d 1143 (Fla.Dist.Ct.App.1982); Heflin v. W.D.M. Corp., 391 So.2d 357 (Fla.Dist.Ct.App.1980); Indianapolis Raceway Park, Inc. v. Curtiss, 179 Ind.App. 557 , 386 N.E.2d 724 (1979) Miles Homes of Indiana, Inc. v. Harrah Plumbing and Heating Service Co., Inc., Ind.App., 408 N.E.2d 597 (1980); Landas Fertilizer Co. v. Hargreaves, 206 N.W.2d 675 (Iowa 1978); Abbeville Lumber Co. v. Richard, 350 So.2d 1292 (La.Ct.App.1977); Messina Brothers Construction Co. v. Williford, 630 S.W.2d 201 (Mo.Ct.App.1982); Met Painting Co., Inc. v. Dana, 90 Misc.2d 289 , 394 N.Y.S.2d 392 (1977); Kazmier v. Thom, 63 Ohio App.2d 29 , 408 N.E.2d 694 (1978); Commercial Fixtures and Furnishings, Inc. v. Adams, 564 P.2d 713 (Utah 1977); McCombs Construction, Inc. v. Barnes, 82 Wash.App. 70 , 645 P2d 1131 (1982). There must be some other evidence that the lessee was acting as the agent of the lessor in making improvements to the leased premises, however, mere acquiescence or inactive consent by the lessor of the leased premises to the i”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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