134 W. Va. 34 - State v. Bouchelle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““After conviction of felony there can be no allowance of bail by this Court, or a circuit court, except that for some cause extraordinary, not growing out of, but independent of, the criminal act, as for sickness, bail may be granted before conviction, or after it, pending a writ of error and before aetual commitment to the penitentiary. The party must be laboring under a present painful, severe and dangerous disease either caused or aggravated by his imprisonment, and there must be strong probable reason, not mere fear, but based on facts, to apprehend that continued imprisonment will be fatal, or at least cause permanent grave injury to health.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Burford v. McKee

2. ““Our decision is as to misdemeanors. As to felonies, there is discretion to bail or not; but I do not realize that such is the case of misdemeanors. 5 Cyc. 63, 68; 3 Am. & Eng. Enc. L. 666.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Burford v. McKee