143 W. Va. 302 - State v. Bowyer’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably State v. Louk (1983), State v. Louk (1983)
34 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 Thompson v. United States · State v. Clifford · 128 W. Va. 166 - State v. Foley · 142 W. Va. 303 - State v. Morris · State v. Douglass
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of self-defense is not impaired by malice upon the part of an accused against a deceased by mere intention or preparation by an accused to kill a deceased or inflict great bodily harm upon him if such malice, intention, or preparation is not accompanied by over acts which are indicative of a wrongful purpose or are calculated to provoke an attack.”
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.