162 W. Va. 332 - State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2008
11 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Rachal v. United States · Pomponio v. United States · 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey · 159 W. Va. 738 - State v. Pendry
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the jury may infer that a person intends to do that which he does, or which is the natural or necessary consequence of his act,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Insofar as the jury was permitted but not required to find from the evidence that the defendant had the intent to kill, and insofar as the jury was properly and adequately advised of the State’s duty to prove intent to kill beyond a reasonable doubt, the giving of the instruction that “the jury may infer that a person intends to do that which he does, or which is the natural or necessary consequence of his act” was not reversible error in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is fundamental in this jurisdiction that voluntary manslaughter requires an intent to kill. State v. Hamrick, [160] W.Va. [673], 236 S.E.2d 247 (1977); State v. Blizzard, 152 W.Va. 810 , 166 S.E.2d 560 (196[9]); State v. Duvall, 152 W.Va. 162 , 160 S.E.2d 155 (1968); State v. Reppert, 132 W.Va. 675 , 52 S.E.2d 820 (1949); State v. Foley, 131 W.Va. 326 , 47 S.E.2d 40 (1948); and State v. Barker, 128 W.Va. 744 , 38 S.E.2d 346 (1946).”
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.