155 W. Va. 344 - State v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2001
22 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 Pauling v. McElroy · State v. Hector · 151 W. Va. 1 - State v. Hamric · 151 W. Va. 796 - State v. Bailey · Halstead v. Horton
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a witness has been arrested or charged with a crime may be shown or inquired into where it would reasonably tend to show that his testimony might be influenced by interest or bias.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Questions may be asked of witnesses as to convictions, both felonies and misdemeanors in order to test the witness’ credibility. (Emphasis added.)”
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.