137 W. Va. 1 - State v. Blankenship’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Oyler v. Boles (1962), 173 W. Va. 317 - State v. Peyatt (1983)
92 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 135 W. Va. 90 - Dye v. Skeen · 130 W. Va. 74 - State v. Taylor · 128 W. Va. 166 - State v. Foley · State v. Sheppard · State v. Prater
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he admissibility of evidence as rebuttal is within the sound discretion of the trial court, and the exercise of such discretion does not constitute ground for reversal unless it is prejudicial to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party who is surprised by unfavorable testimony given by his own witness may interrogate such witness as to previous inconsistent statements made by him.”
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.