156 W. Va. 569 - State v. Bias’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1995
6 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 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · Starcher v. South Penn Oil Co. · 117 W. Va. 217 - State v. Bowles · 104 W. Va. 617 - State v. Beale · State v. Burdette
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In a criminal case, a verdict of guilt will not be set aside on the ground that it is contrary to the evidence, where the state’s evidence is sufficient to convince impartial minds of the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt, though the evidence adduced by the accused is in conflict therewith. To warrant interference with a verdict of guilt on the ground of insufficiency of evidence, the court must be convinced that the evidence was manifestly inadequate and that consequent injustice has been done.’ Syllabus pt. 1, State v. Bowles, 117 W.Va. 217 , 185 S.E. 205 (1936); Syllabus pt. 3, State v. Lewis, 133 W.Va. 584 , 57 S.E.2d 513 (1949).””
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.