149 W. Va. 310 - State Ex Rel. Sovine v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2002
4 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 137 W. Va. 694 - Cato v. Silling · Gillingham v. Ohio River Railroad · 148 W. Va. 710 - Winters v. Campbell · 82 W. Va. 692 - Johnson v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · State Ex Rel. Lawrence v. Buxton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to effect an unlawful arrest constituting false imprisonment without a manual seizure or touching of the subject of the arrest, there must be such words and conduct on the part of a known officer as to give reasonable ground for belief on the part of the subject that the officer has the present intention to make the arrest and submission on the part of the subject in good faith and under the belief that he has been arrested or will be arrested immediately.”
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.