140 W. Va. 444 - State v. Pietranton’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 151 W. Va. 1 - State v. Hamric (1966), 173 W. Va. 317 - State v. Peyatt (1983)
70 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 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · 128 W. Va. 655 - State v. Hudson · 129 W. Va. 448 - State v. Wooldridge · 126 W. Va. 895 - State v. Beacraft · 130 W. Va. 74 - State v. Taylor
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 70 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n the trial of a criminal offense, the presumption of innocence existing in favor of a defendant continues through every stage of the trial until a finding of guilty by the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he offense charged in the indictment [embezzlement] in the instant case is a wholly different offense from that charged in the former indictment [false pretense],”
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.