128 W. Va. 744 - State v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Comber v. United States (1990), 132 W. Va. 675 - State v. Reppert (1949)
65 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 128 W. Va. 136 - State v. Lawson · 117 W. Va. 217 - State v. Bowles · 121 W. Va. 669 - Keatley v. Hanna Chevrolet Co. · O'Boyle v. Commonwealth · State v. McCoy
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conduct of a trial is within the sound discretion of the trial court and to a large extent the trial court has full control of the order in which evidence is to be introduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a conviction for a lower degree of an offense is sustained by the evidence, an instruction on a higher degree, though erroneous, is immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stalnaker
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.