145 W. Va. 261 - State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1999
24 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 130 W. Va. 401 - State v. McCauley · Bell v. Commonwealth · 96 W. Va. 268 - State v. Whitt · State v. Waldron · 114 W. Va. 458 - State v. Stephenson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you find the Defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, the Court must sentence him to confinement in the penitentiary for life and the Defendant shall not be eligible for parole, unless you, in your sole discretion, further find and add to the verdict, a recommendation of mercy, in which event the Court must sentence him to confinement in the penitentiary for life, but the Defendant shall be eligible for parole as provided by law. [emphasis added]”
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.