107 W. Va. 324 - State v. Meek’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1995
5 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 State v. Cain · Mitchell v. State · Hill v. State · Lipscomb v. State · 99 W. Va. 176 - McBee v. Deusenberry
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[m]ust have been made under the realization and solemn sense of impending death ... must have been the utterances of a sane mind ... must be restricted to the homicide and the circumstances immediately attending it, and forming part of the res gestae ... is not admissible unless it would be competent and relevant if it were the testimony of a living witness; and ... [g]reat caution should be observed in the admission of dying declarations, and the rules which restrict their admission should be carefully guarded.’”
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.