152 W. Va. 736 - State v. Nuckols’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably 193 W. Va. 475 - Barefoot v. Sundale Nursing Home (1995), 193 W. Va. 51 - State v. Honaker (1994)
41 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 Michelson v. United States · 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley · 43 Cal. 2d 740 - People v. White · 142 W. Va. 18 - State v. Carduff · 151 W. Va. 796 - State v. Bailey
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is well established that the credibility of a character witness can be tested by referring to certain things he should have heard that would indicate that the conclusion that the reputation was good was incorrect or not sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[the proper method of challenging, before the trial of a case, alleged irregularities in the selection, drawing, or impaneling of jurors, is by plea in abatement”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bloomer v. State“The jury is the trier of the facts and in performing that duty it is the sole judge as to the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses.”
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.