152 W. Va. 646 - State v. Reel’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey (1983), 158 W. Va. 111 - State v. Flinn (1974)
25 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 152 W. Va. 500 - State Ex Rel. Strickland v. Melton · 151 W. Va. 655 - Owens-Illinois Glass Company v. Battle · 148 W. Va. 776 - Delardas v. Morgantown Water Commission · 152 W. Va. 484 - State Ex Rel. Render v. Wood · State v. Condry
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, in the opimon of the superintendent, any boy has satisfactorily completed the center training program, such male offender shall be returned to the jurisdiction of the court which originally committed him. He shall be eligible for probation for the offense with which he is charged, and the judge of the court shall immediately place him on probation.”
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.