124 W. Va. 740 - State v. Seckman’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably 160 W. Va. 234 - State v. Boyd (1977), 158 W. Va. 905 - State v. Starr (1975)
26 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 124 W. Va. 4 - State v. Friedman · 103 W. Va. 237 - State v. Hively · 101 W. Va. 242 - State v. Gill · 119 W. Va. 85 - State v. Graham · 122 W. Va. 51 - State v. Geene
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The crime of which this defendant is accused is ‘so revolting that it is difficult for the average jury to give the one accused the benefit of a reasonable doubt’. State v. Gill, supra; State v. Graham, supra, 91. Its very nature should have prompted the prosecuting attorney to exercise the highest degree of decorum in the conduct of the trial.” 124 W. Va. at 744 , 22 S.E.2d at 376 .”
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.