151 W. Va. 194 - State Ex Rel. Combs v. Boles’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey (1978), 169 W. Va. 191 - State v. Hatfield (1982)
45 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 State v. Boles · 142 W. Va. 303 - State v. Morris · 149 W. Va. 112 - State ex rel. Beckett v. Boles · 143 W. Va. 302 - State v. Bowyer · 128 W. Va. 496 - State v. Jones
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney when he has knowledge of former sentence or sentences to the penitentiary of any person convicted of an offense punishable by confinement in the penitentiary to give information thereof to the court immediately upon conviction and before sentence. A sentence upon a finding of habitual criminality is not imposed as consecutive to the sentence imposed for the underlying felony conviction. Such a finding is not a conviction of a separate crime, but rather provides for the enhancement of a sentence imposed under conviction for an underlying felony. (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to lawfully charge an accused with a particular crime it is imperative that the essential elements of that crime be alleged in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“homicide, if committed feloniously and unlawfully, but without malice, will constitute voluntary manslaughter”
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.