180 W. Va. 124 - Myers v. Stickley’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corporation · Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corp. · 159 W. Va. 844 - Berkeley Development Corp. v. Hutzler · 128 W. Va. 94 - Johnston v. Terry · Robinson v. Braiden
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reformation of a deed or other writing by a court of equity on the ground of a mutual mistake of the parties, or a mistake of the scrivener, will not be decreed where to do so would prejudice the right of an innocent purchaser for value of the property covered by the deed sought to be reformed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Semler v. Hartley
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.