127 W. Va. 197 - State v. McMillion’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1977 · most notably 160 W. Va. 497 - State v. McAboy (1977), 137 W. Va. 1 - State v. Blankenship (1952)
30 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 · State v. Lemon · 121 W. Va. 170 - State v. Belcher · 69 W. Va. 770 - State v. Huffman · 118 W. Va. 296 - State v. Keller
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Code, 57-3-6, requires an accused who voluntarily becomes a witness in his own behalf to state in response to questions propounded on cross-examination, whether or not he has been convicted of other offenses.””
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.