176 W. Va. 267 - Tabler v. Weller’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2012
10 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 United States v. Scott · Lohm Estate · Clare v. Grasty · Taylor v. Taylor · 148 W. Va. 38 - Estate of Lapinsky v. Sparacino
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘An executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased person is under a duty to take custody of the estate and to administer it in •such a manner as to preserve and protect it for ultimate distribution. In the discharge of such duty, he is held to the highest degree of good faith...Syllabus Point 4, In re: Estate of Lapinsky v. Sparacino, 148 W.Va. 38 , 132 S.E.2d 765 (1963).””
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.