119 W. Va. 396 - State v. Deboard’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1994
14 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 · State v. Taylor · Parker v. National Mutual Building & Loan Ass'n · State v. Dodds · State v. Staley
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With the assertion that the instruction is not full and complete, we concur. But the instruction must not be appraised alone. It must be read in conjunction with defendant's instructions wherein we find that the jury was fully and fairly informed as to the defendant's right of self-defense against any and all menacing individuals.”
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.