179 W. Va. 712 - Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 159 W. Va. 508 - Prete v. Merchants Property Ins. Co. of Ind. · 151 W. Va. 439 - South Side Lumber Co. v. Stone Construction Co. · 159 W. Va. 844 - Berkeley Development Corp. v. Hutzler · Shaver v. Edgell · 119 W. Va. 132 - Post v. Wallace
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 5 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutefdj abandonment of any prescriptive right that may have matured,” without specifically articulating the rule of law. 5 . We find the criteria listed in Moyer persuasive because it has been argued that prescriptive easements should be treated the same as easements created by deed:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be extended, as a matter of right, by the owner of the dominant estate, to other lands owned by him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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