128 W. Va. 370 - State v. Humphreys’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably State v. Wolery (1976), 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis (1949)
46 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 Kerr v. Lunsford · M. Rosenberg & Sons, Inc. v. Craft · Jarrett v. Jarrett · State v. Betsall · State v. Thompson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court instructs the jury that the testimony of an accomplice in crime, that is a person who actually commits or participates in or plans a crime, is admissible in evidence, and the jury has a right to consider such evidence in the same light as other evidence in the case, and to believe or disbelieve such evidence, and to give it such weight as they think the same may be entitled to, and that the jury in this case should examine this evidence in light of all other evidence in the case, both that of other witnesses and the circumstantial evidence admitted into evidence for their consideration, and when viewed as a whole to see if the jury feels that the evidence of the accomplice in the crime was correct, and is entitled to consideration. “If the jury finds that there is no evidence tending to support the evidence of the accomplice either that given by witnesses in the case or the circumstantial evidence which was admitted in the case, then the evidence of the accomplice may be scanned with caution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The principle that, though a conviction may be had upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice, such testimony must be received with caution, and that the jury in a criminal case, upon request, should be so instructed, is based on sound reason and is sustained by the decisions of the appellate courts in many jurisdictions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Conviction for a crime may be had upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice; but in such case the testimony must be received with caution and the jury should, upon request, be so instructed.”
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.