151 W. Va. 796 - State v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas (1974), 172 W. Va. 295 - State v. Williams (1983)
87 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. Sheppard · 140 W. Va. 314 - State v. Spradley · 147 W. Va. 211 - State v. Stevenson · 104 W. Va. 617 - State v. Beale · 137 W. Va. 251 - State v. Harlow
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘If, on a trial for murder, the evidence is wholly circumstantial, but as to time, place, motive, means, and conduct it concurs in pointing to the accused as the perpetrator of the crime, he [or she] may properly be convicted.’ State v. Beale, 104 W.Va. 617, 632-33 , 141 S.E. 7, 13 (1927).””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The weight of circumstantial evidence, as in the case of direct evidence, is a question for jury determination, and whether such evidence excludes, to a moral certainty, every reasonable hypothesis, other than that of guilt, is a question for the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is now well recognized and firmly settled that proof of guilt may be established by circumstantial evidence.... This has been termed a rule of necessity, it being obvious that if guilt could not be proved by such evidence it would be impossible in a great many instances, to successfully prosecute perpetrators of crime.”
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.