Ritz v. Kingdon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “burden of proving undue influence is upon the party who alleges the exercise of such influence”
• Plaintiffs, owners of land subject to a life estate, entitled to damages for waste or trespass for timber cut by defendant; amount of recovery dependent upon whether defendant was a co-tenant or stranger

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

43 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Board of Education v. Zando, Martin & Milstead, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-02-22· cited 136×
• Hartley v. Crede
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-07-27· cited 90×
• State v. Bragg
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1955-03-08· cited 74×
• Lester v. Rose
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1963-03-11· cited 69×
• Torrence v. Kusminsky
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-07-29· cited 62×
• Keesecker v. Bird
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-14· cited 60×
• State v. Cirullo
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1956-06-26· cited 47×
• Hollen v. Linger
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1966-11-29· cited 47×
• State v. Pietranton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-11-23· cited 43×
• Dunning v. Barlow & Wisler, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1963-12-17· cited 37×
• State Ex Rel. Shatzer v. Freeport Coal Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-03-10· cited 35×
• Frye v. Norton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-04-07· cited 33×
• Montgomery v. Montgomery
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-12-04· cited 33×
• State v. Brown
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-03-11· cited 32×
• Ward v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1955-03-28· cited 30×
• Campbell v. Campbell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-02-27· cited 27×
• Adams v. Sparacio
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1973-05-22· cited 25×
• Floyd v. Floyd
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1963-12-17· cited 24×
• Lightner v. Lightner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-03-13· cited 23×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1954-03-30· cited 19×

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kerr v. Lunsford
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1888-12-08· cited 119×
• Halstead v. Horton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1894-01-27· cited 106×
• Gregory's Adm'r v. Ohio River R'd
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1893-02-01· cited 56×
• Ritz v. Kingdon
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-12-18· cited 55×
• Nicholas v. Kershner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1882-09-01· cited 46×
• State v. Bingham
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1896-06-17· cited 37×
• Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. v. Fox
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-03-21· cited 36×
• Forney v. Ferrell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1871-01-15· cited 33×
• Martin v. Thayer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1892-11-19· cited 33×
• Oates v. Continental Insurance Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1952-11-11· cited 31×
• Coffman v. Hedrick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1889-02-11· cited 29×
• Kap-Tex, Inc. v. Romans
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1951-12-04· cited 25×
• Guyandotte Coal Co. v. Virginian Electric & Machine Works
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1923-06-19· cited 25×
• Grottendick v. Webber
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1950-10-31· cited 24×
• Jenkins v. Trice
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1929-03-21· cited 24×
• Culpepper v. Robie
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1930-09-12· cited 24×
• Doak v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1923-02-13· cited 24×
• McDodrill v. Pardee & Curtin Lumber Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1895-04-13· cited 23×
• Forehand v. Sawyer
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1927-01-20· cited 23×
• Tate v. Chumbley
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-01-16· cited 21×