70 W. Va. 76 - Dolan v. Dolan’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2019
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Given v. Hilton · Williams v. South Penn Oil Co. · 29 W. Va. 169 - Wilson v. Perry · Houser v. Ruffner · Irwin v. Zane
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no question but that the word ‘surface’ has a' definite certain meaning; that it is that portion of the land which is or may be used for agricultural purposes, for plowing, grazing, etc., and That a conveyance of the surface of a tract of land as completely severs the surface from the various strata beneath it as the conveyance of the coal, iron, limestone, or any other specified stratum or interest in the land conveys a separate estate.””
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.