158 W. Va. 72 - State v. Fischer’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey (1978), 167 W. Va. 411 - State v. Daggett (1981)
50 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 Bridges v. Wixon · Dombrowski v. Pfister · United States v. De Sisto · Byrd v. United States · 142 W. Va. 18 - State v. Carduff
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon motion to direct a verdict for the defendant, the evidence is to be viewed in light most favorable to prosecution. It is not necessary in appraising its sufficiency that the trial court or reviewing court be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant; the question is whether there is substantial evidence upon which a jury might justifiably find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
13 later decisions 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.