137 W. Va. 477 - State v. Pietranton’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey (1978), 163 W. Va. 40 - State v. Burton (1979)
42 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 Butts v. Commonwealth · State v. Austin · 116 W. Va. 75 - State v. Shelton · 103 W. Va. 237 - State v. Hively · 130 W. Va. 708 - State v. Perkins
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indictment for larceny shall be sufficient if it be in form, tenor or effect as follows (after following the form in section one [§ 62-9-1]): That A ..., on the ... day of..., nineteen ..., in the said county of .., one (here describe the property or articles stolen, giving value of separate items) of the value of ... dollars, of the money, goods, effects and property of B ..., feloniously did steal, take and carry away, against the peace and dignity of the State. And if the offense be petit larceny, the word “unlawfully” shall be substituted for the word “feloniously” in the form aforesaid, and after the word “aforesaid” the words “and within one year before the finding of this indictment” shall be inserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Larceny, as distinguished from other offenses, is the taking and carrying away from any place, at any time, of the personal property of another, without his consent, by a person not entitled to the possession thereof, feloniously, with intent to deprive the owner of his property permanently, and to convert it to the use of the taker or of some person other than the owner; * * *”. State v. Pietranton, 137 W.Va. 477 , 72 S.E.2d 617, 620 (1952).”
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.