149 W. Va. 645 - State Ex Rel. Stapleton v. Boles’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1993
9 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 149 W. Va. 155 - State Ex Rel. May v. Boles · 149 W. Va. 516 - State Ex Rel. Robison v. Boles · 149 W. Va. 181 - State Ex Rel. Browning v. Boles · 149 W. Va. 174 - State Ex Rel. Stumbo v. Boles · 149 W. Va. 193 - State Ex Rel. Arbraugh v. Boles
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right of the defendant in a criminal proceeding to the assistance of counsel is a fundamental right, the waiver of which will not be presumed by the failure of the accused to request counsel, by the entry of a guilty plea or by reason of a record silent concerning the matter of counsel and the conviction of a defendant in the absence of counsel or of an affirmative showing of an intelligent waiver of such right is void.”
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.