114 W. Va. 236 - Robertson v. Hobson’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis (1949), 138 W. Va. 639 - Matthews v. Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Co. (1953)
37 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 Sims v. Commonwealth · Carney v. Concord Street Railway · Lavenstein v. Maile · Scott v. Commonwealth · Hutchinson v. City of Parkersburg
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But as was said by this Court in Brogan v. [Union] Traction Co., 76 W.Va. 698, 707 , 86 S.E. 753 , jurors generally understand that their verdict must be unanimous. We cannot conceive that the defendant was prejudiced because he failed to have the jury specially instructed to that effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The instruction [that bearing on unanimity] might probably have been given with propriety, but it embodied principles so well understood and so fully covered by the oath of each juror, that its refusal could not be deemed error.'”
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.