196 W. Va. 276 - Carr v. Constable’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 196 W. Va. 178 - Burgess v. Porterfield · 196 W. Va. 223 - In Interest of Tiffany Marie S. · 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 6 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.