136 W. Va. 199 - State v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably 156 W. Va. 385 - State v. Smith (1972), 159 W. Va. 404 - State v. Basham (1976)
29 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. 166 - State v. Foley · State v. McCausland · State v. Austin · 104 W. Va. 617 - State v. Beale · 77 W. Va. 736 - Bond v. National Fire Insurance
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The general rule, inhibiting allowance of a new trial for matter constituting a principal cause of challenge to a juror, existing before the juror was elected and sworn, unknown to the complaining party until after verdict, not disclosed on a thorough voir dire examination, and undiscoverable by the exercise of ordinary diligence, unless it appears from the whole case that the complainant suffered injustice by reason of the disqualification; applies in criminal cases * * .' State v. Harris, 69 W.Va. 244 , Syl. [ 71 S.E. 609 ].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘In this jurisdiction where there is competent evidence tending to support a pertinent theory of a case, it is error for the trial court to refuse a proper instruction, presenting such theory, when so requested.’ Syllabus Point 4, State v. Hayes, 136 W.Va. 199 , 67 S.E.2d 9 (1951).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.