175 W. Va. 253 - White v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2021
12 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 160 W. Va. 84 - Somon v. Murphy Fabrication & Erection Co. · Heavner v. Morgan · Stover v. Stover · 108 W. Va. 531 - Higgins v. Suburban Improvement 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. ‘One who seeks to assert title to a tract of land under the doctrine of adverse possession must prove each of the following elements for the requisite statutory period: (1) That he has held the tract adversely or hostilely; (2) That the possession has been actual; (3) That it has been open and notorious (sometimes stated in the cases as visible and notorious); (4) That possession has been exclusive; (5) That possession has been continuous; (6) That possession has been under claim of title or color of title.’ Syllabus Point 3, Somon v. Murphy Fabrication & Erection Co., 160 W.Va. 84 , 232 S.E.2d 524 (1977). "2. ‘Adverse possession of a right of way granted by deed must be hostile at its inception, adverse, actual, visible, open, notorious, exclusive, under claim of ownership and continuous for the statutory period.’ Syllabus Point 1, Higgins v. Suburban Improvement Co., 108 W.Va. 531 , 151 S.E. 842 (1930).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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