210 W. Va. 336 - Stover v. Milam’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 201 W. Va. 108 - Walker v. West Virginia Ethics Commission. · 196 W. Va. 239 - Carter v. Carter · 157 W. Va. 778 - Toler v. Shelton · 204 W. Va. 430 - Wickland v. American Travellers Life Insurance · 146 W. Va. 22 - Farley v. Graney
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wherefore anything done by a state or its delegated agent, as a municipality, which substantially interferes with the beneficial use of land, depriving the owner of lawful dominion over it or any part of it, and not within the general police power of the state, is the taking or damaging of private property without compensation inhibited by the Constitution.”
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.