148 W. Va. 263 - State Ex Rel. Dandy v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 172 W. Va. 295 - State v. Williams (1983), 149 W. Va. 246 - Barnett v. Wolfolk (1965)
63 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 135 W. Va. 90 - Dye v. Skeen · State v. Greer · 145 W. Va. 178 - Rollins v. Daraban · Shrewsbury v. Miller · State v. McCausland
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[I]t is not the reasons assigned upon which the [lower] court decided a question that is to be reviewed, but the action of the court itself; and the question always in the appellate court is, whether the judgment to be reviewed is correct.' Syl. pt. 5, State ex rel. Dandy v. Thompson, 148 W.Va. 263 , 134 S.E.2d 730 (1964), in part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * And in any criminal case the court may discharge the jury, when it appears that they cannot agree in a verdict, or that there is manifest necessity for such discharge."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“correctness of ... [trial court's] final action is the only material consideration, not the stated reasons for [the trial court's] taking such action”
2 later decisions 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.