130 W. Va. 74 - State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 158 W. Va. 905 - State v. Starr (1975), 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis (1949)
76 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. 655 - State v. Hudson · Flum v. State · 124 W. Va. 4 - State v. Friedman · 117 W. Va. 217 - State v. Bowles · Cobb v. Dunlevie
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court can not determine whether there was prejudicial error in the absence of the answers. State ex rel. Connellsville By-Product Coal Company v. Continental Coal Company, 109 W.Va. 557 , 155 S.E. 667 ; State v.Bowles, 117 W.Va. 217 , 185 S.E. 205 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cirullo
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.