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214 W. Va. 161 - Realmark Developments, Inc. v. Ranson’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 194 W. Va. 138 - Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L. · Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington · 197 W. Va. 97 - Brannon v. Riffle · 156 Ill. App. 3d 806 - Partipilo v. Hallman · 153 W. Va. 613 - Somerville v. Jacobs

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““by either (a) the reasonable value to the other party of what he received in terms of what it would have cost him to obtain it from a person in the claimant’s position, or (b) the extent to which the other party’s property has been increased in value or his other interests advanced. The greater of the above two measures should be used in cases in which work has increased the value of the defendant’s property, but there is some discrepancy between the reasonable value of that work and the amount of enhancement.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he distinction between law and equity was abolished by Rule 2 of the West Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure!)] which provides that '[t]here shall be one form of action to be known as”
    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.