131 W. Va. 714 - State v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2012
23 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 · 67 W. Va. 39 - Walker v. Strosnider · Bradshaw v. Commonwealth · 104 W. Va. 617 - State v. Beale · 20 W. Va. 251 - Nicholas v. Kershner
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * As already pointed out, however, the evidence wholly fails to show that the conduct of the defendant in causing the injury sustained by White in the collision constituted either an unlawful act or a lawful act committed in an unlawful manner, and, because there was no such evidence upon which to base the instruction, the action of the trial court in giving it was reversible error. State v. Shelton, 116 W. Va. 75 , 178 S. E. 633 ; State v. Zinn, 95 W. Va. 148 , 120 S. E. 387 ; Penix v. Grafton, 86 W. Va. 278 , 103 S. E. 106 ; State v. Donahue, 79 W. Va. 260 , 90 S. E. 834 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The giving of an instruction based on an assumption of facts which is not supported by the evidence constitutes reversible error.” and “An instruction which tends to confuse or mislead the jury is properly refused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.