28 W. Va. 820 - Waggoner v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1975
18 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
Relies on McClure v. Maitland · Baylor's lessee v. Dejarnette · Wynn v. Harman's devisees · Shenandoah Valley National Bank v. Bates
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In McClure v. Maitland, 24 W. Va. 561 , this court decided, that as soon as the title to the land became forfeited and vested in the State, according to the aforesaid provisions of the constitution, the ownership of the State became absolute, and her title perfect, and that the former owner then ceased to have any title, claim, right, or interest whatever in the land as such owner, and that the only right conferred upon him by the said fifth section of the constitution was to be paid the excess of the proceeds of the sale over the amount of the taxes, in the manner therein prescribed. In that case no petition was filed or offer made to redeem the land. The effort there was to have the sale of lands already made set aside at the instance of Maitland, the former Owner. Therefore no question was presented or considered in that case as to the right of the former owner to redeem the land before sale by the school commissioner; nor was the power of the legislature to authorize such redemption before sale either referred td or discussed by the court in its opinion. The question as to such authority is now for the first time presented to this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rich v. Braxton
How this case has been treated — in progress
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