139 W. Va. 645 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 182 W. Va. 345 - State v. Fortner (1989), 140 W. Va. 444 - State v. Pietranton (1954)
25 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 Wong Tai v. United States · 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · 128 W. Va. 655 - State v. Hudson · 132 W. Va. 675 - State v. Reppert · 132 W. Va. 322 - State v. Simon
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alleged errors in the admission or the rejection of evidence, to which objection has been made in a trial court, are waived unless such evidence is specifically set forth as a ground of a motion to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial or unless it is incorporated in a special bill of exceptions which shows the evidence and the ruling of the court in admitting or rejecting it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bragg“[u]ndue restriction should not be placed on a prosecuting attorney in his argument to the jury.”
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.