124 W. Va. 4 - State v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably 160 W. Va. 497 - State v. McAboy (1977), 137 W. Va. 1 - State v. Blankenship (1952)
3 federal appellate · 50 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 104 W. Va. 523 - State v. Brady · 81 W. Va. 516 - State v. White · Thaniel v. Commonwealth · Hicks v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be subject to cross-examination as any other witness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bragg · Clayton v. Haynes““Of course, the trial judge, if requested to do so, should inform the jury that the cross-examination as to former convictions does not relate to the question of guilt or innocence, but only to the question of credibility. Due to the doubtful effect upon the jury, we do not think the trial judge should assume the initiative.” [ 124 W.Va. at 8 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In any trial or examination in or before any court or officer for a felony or misdemeanor, the accused”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bragg
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.