144 W. Va. 209 - State v. Kessinger’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1982
17 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 144 W. Va. 92 - Mullins v. Baker · 90 W. Va. 338 - State v. Counts · 78 W. Va. 785 - Holt v. Otis Elevator Co. · 137 W. Va. 585 - State v. Fitzsimmons · State v. Murphy
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" An offense under this article shall be held to have been committed in any county in which such husband, parent, wife, child or children may be at the time such desertion, refusal, neglect or failure to provide, or any part thereof, took place, or where the offender may be at the time such complaint is made * * *."”
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.