156 W. Va. 264 - State v. Chaffin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 169 W. Va. 191 - State v. Hatfield (1982), 159 W. Va. 691 - State v. Milam (1976)
39 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. Davis · 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley · 140 W. Va. 444 - State v. Pietranton · 138 W. Va. 417 - State Ex Rel. Vascovich v. Skeen · 146 W. Va. 511 - Edmiston v. Wilson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for a continuance based on the absence of a material witness is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and its ruling on such motion will not be disturbed unless it is clearly wrong and it appears that such discretion has been abused.” Syllabus Point 1, State v. Chaffin, 156 W.Va. 264 , 192 S.E.2d 728 (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The sentence for the crime of armed robbery must be for a definite term of not less than ten years and the imposition of an indeterminate sentence of from ten years to life for such crime constitutes error.” 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No indictment or other accusation shall be quashed or deemed invalid ... for omitting to state, or stating imperfectly, the time at which the offense was committed.”
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.