136 W. Va. 391 - State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1999
10 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 State v. Lutz · State Ex Rel. Tate v. One Lexington Automobile · 103 W. Va. 19 - State v. Koil · 135 W. Va. 60 - State v. Mullins · Landers v. Commonwealth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An offense can be said to be committed in the presence of an officer only when he sees it with his own eyes, or sees one or more of a series of acts constituting [the] offense, and is aided by his other senses or by information as to the others, when it may be said the offense was committed in his presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Forsythe
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.