175 W. Va. 418 - Keller v. Hartman’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 178 W. Va. 444 - McClung v. Marion County Commission (1987), 183 W. Va. 291 - Shrewsbury v. Humphrey (1990)
31 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 173 W. Va. 335 - Orr v. Crowder · Deregibus v. Silberman Furniture Co., Inc. · Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corporation · Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corp. · 159 W. Va. 844 - Berkeley Development Corp. v. Hutzler
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "The open, continuous and uninterrupted use of a road over the land of another, under bona fide claim of right, and without objection from the owner, for a period of ten years, creates in the user of such road a right by prescription to the continued use thereof. In the absence of any one or all of such requisites, the claimant of a private way does not acquire such way by prescription over the lands of another.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a jury returns a general verdict in a case involving two or more liability issues and its verdict is supported by the evidence on at least one issue, the verdict will not be reversed, unless the defen dant has requested and been refused the right to have the jury make special findings as to his liability on each of the issues.”
2 later decisions 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.