161 W. Va. 598 - State v. McKinney’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A defendant in a criminal case is entitled to testify in his own behalf and so long as he does not place his character and reputation in issue, he is entitled to assurance by the court that no prior conviction, save convictions for perjury or false swearing, would be revealed on cross-examination.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 W. Va. 529 - State v. Tanner · 167 W. Va. 252 - State v. Payne

2. “A consent to search agreement signed by an accused must be treated in the same manner as a confession and the trial court must, even in the absence of a specific request, determine the voluntariness of such consent before the evidence obtained by the search can be introduced into evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 W. Va. 128 - State v. Rickman

3. “In the trial of the criminal case a defendant who elects to testify may have his credibility impeached by showing prior convictions of perjury or false swearing, but it’s impermissible to impeach his credibility through any other prior convictions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 W. Va. 252 - State v. Payne