197 W. Va. 375 - Schultz v. Consolidation Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2017
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
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 1201 (Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act of 1990) · 30 U.S.C. § 1307
Relies on 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · 167 W. Va. 272 - Lengyel v. Lint · 104 W. Va. 238 - Horton v. Tyree · National Wildlife Federation v. Lujan · 179 W. Va. 793 - Canestraro v. Faerber
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is appropriate where the record taken as a whole could not lead a rational trier of fact to find for the nonmoving party, such as where the nonmoving party has failed to make a sufficient showing on an essential element of the case that it has the burden to prove.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]ourts in this jurisdiction that have examined the validity of subjacent support waivers within severance deeds have consistently upheld the validity of these waivers under this state's common law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right [to mine the land] without leaving any support for the overlying stratas and without liability for any injury which may result to the surface from the breaking of said strata.”
1 later decision 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.