126 W. Va. 781 - State v. Spry’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2002
10 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 Allen v. State of Georgia · Smith v. United States · Selma and Meridian Railroad Company v. Louisiana National Bank of New Orleans · Commonwealth v. Andrews · Southerland 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prisoner convicted of felony obtains a writ of error, and he then escapes from jail and is still at large. In such case the appellate court will order, that the writ of error be dismissed by a certain day, unless it shall be made to appear to the court before that day, that the plaintiff in error is in custody of the proper officer of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rogers“the accused here is in a much worse situation than the defendants in our two reported cases [Conners and Sites]. Unknown to this Court he was actually out of custody long before the writ of error was granted. The Court would not have considered his petition for review if the actual situation had been known....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rogers
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.