125 W. Va. 1 - State v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably 164 W. Va. 216 - State v. Vance (1980), Wanstreet v. Bordenkircher (1981)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 116 W. Va. 398 - State v. Stout
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When any such convict shall have been twice before convicted in the United States of a crime punishable by confinement in a penitentiary, the person shall be sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary for life. But before such sentence may be lawfully imposed, it must be alleged -in the indictment on which the person is convicted, and admitted, or by the jury found, that such convict had theretofore been twice so convicted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.