121 W. Va. 499 - State v. Digman’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1992
7 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 24 Cal. App. 203 - Matter of Application of Kantrowitz · State v. Goldizen · State v. Vaughan · 96 W. Va. 109 - State v. Fudge · 19 Okla. Crim. 129 - Myers v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the State's proof, there could be a proper conviction of but one offense principal in the second degree to the crime of rape. Any other finding would constitute error, requiring the trial court to set the verdict aside”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franklin“There being evidence to sustain a conviction of but one of the offenses charged, there was no room for an election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franklin
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.