159 W. Va. 438 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2001
8 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 123 W. Va. 177 - Carper Ex Rel. Phoenix Assurance Co. of London v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · 130 W. Va. 236 - State v. Younger · 142 W. Va. 182 - State v. Stout · State v. De Spain · 154 W. Va. 25 - State v. Bailey
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.
“"The second aspect of the instant case which constitutes an impediment to its certification is that in ruling on the defendant's special plea, the court below considered and apparently relied upon factual matters outside of the pleadings. It has been repeatedly held that this Court has no jurisdiction to review on certification any pleading which has been disposed of by reliance on proof.” State v. Brown, 159 W.Va. at 441, 223 S.E.2d at 195 . (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained in this article, whenever in any criminal case an indictment is held bad or insufficient by the judgment or order of a circuit court, the State, on the application of the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney, may obtain a writ of error to secure a review of such judgment or order by the supreme court of appeals."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question of certifiability of decisions of a lower court to this Court is one which goes to the jurisdiction of this Court.” 6”
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.