127 W. Va. 169 - State v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1975
18 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 · 124 W. Va. 20 - Mitchell v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 124 W. Va. 740 - State v. Seckman · 96 W. Va. 544 - State v. Coleman · Watts 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no connection between the offenses so shown and the offense charged. * * * "The testimony concerning sales of intoxicating liquor and a conviction for such sale is irrelevant and was improperly admitted. The admission of illegal evidence is presumptively prejudicial, and unless it is clear that the verdict could not have been affected by it, is ground for reversal." (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.