137 W. Va. 105 - Dean v. Skeen’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2004
3 federal appellate · 13 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 People v. Gowasky · 135 W. Va. 90 - Dye v. Skeen · 9 Cal. 2d 508 - People v. Biggs · Ex parte Mooney · People Ex Rel. Prisament v. Brophy
Most-quoted passages
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“When any person is convicted of an offense and is subject to confinement in the penitentiary therefor, and it is determined, as provided in section nineteen [§ 61-11-19] of this article, that such person had been before convicted in the United States of a crime punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary, the court shall, if the sentence to be imposed is for a definite term of years, add five years to the time for which the person is or would be otherwise sentenced. Whenever in such case the court imposes an indeterminate sentence, five years shall be added to the maximum term of imprisonment otherwise provided for under such sentence. When it is determined, as provided in section nineteen hereof, that such person shall have been twice convicted in the United States of a crime punishable by confinement in a penitentiary, the person shall be sentenced to be confined in the penitentiary for life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barlow“A pardon is granted on the theory that the convict has seen the error of his ways, that society will gain nothing by his further confinement, and that he will conduct himself in the future as an upright, law-abiding citizen. However, it is fitting, under some circumstances, that certain conditions insuring good conduct should be required of the convict for this opportunity to escape the service of the full penalty prescribed for his former crimes. A future violation of the penal law, whether such takes place during the period that the pardoned convict was originally sentenced or thereafter, demonstrates that the time actually served by the convict was not enough to impress upon him the error of his old course of conduct, and that the pardon should never have been granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baucom
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