156 W. Va. 128 - State v. Wassick’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2001
14 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 128 W. Va. 655 - State v. Hudson · State v. Waite · 151 Pa. Super. 337 - Wigton's Return · 118 W. Va. 508 - State v. Conley · 133 W. Va. 252 - State v. Greater Huntington Theatre Corp.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he "free plays” provided for in such machine are a prize because they have some value to the player either in playing additional games without charge or receiving a "payoff’ and the fact that the "free games” are won predominately by chance for a consideration because of the coins placed in the machine, we hold it to be a lottery per se under the lottery statue of this State.”
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.