135 W. Va. 106 - State v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Wilhelm v. State (1974), 169 W. Va. 191 - State v. Hatfield (1982)
71 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 Kemmler · O'Neil v. State of Vermont · 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · McElvaine v. Brush · State v. Clifford
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Penalties shall be proportioned to the character and degree of the offense.”
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.