129 W. Va. 603 - State v. Boggs’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 151 W. Va. 1 - State v. Hamric (1966), 132 W. Va. 675 - State v. Reppert (1949)
28 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 117 W. Va. 217 - State v. Bowles · State v. Dodds · 116 W. Va. 75 - State v. Shelton · 129 W. Va. 229 - State v. Zitzelsberger · State v. Lowry
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Malice and intent could be inferred by the jury from the defendant's use of a deadly weapon, under circumstances which they did not believe afforded him excuse, justification or provocation for his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bragg“defendant's right to stand his ground and not retreat”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“willful, deliberate and premeditated killing.”
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.