162 W. Va. 447 - State v. Bannister’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 213 W. Va. 80 - Findley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2003), 170 W. Va. 200 - State Ex Rel. Cook v. Helms (1982)
35 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 158 W. Va. 479 - State Ex Rel. Postelwaite v. Bechtold · 162 W. Va. 20 - State Ex Rel. E. D. v. Aldredge · 155 W. Va. 264 - Loveless v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 161 W. Va. 623 - Gibson v. Bechtold · 154 W. Va. 467 - State Ex Rel. Harrison v. Coiner
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the findings of fact and conclusions of law justifying an order transferring a juvenile proceeding to the criminal jurisdiction of the circuit court are clearly wrong or against the plain preponderance of the evidence, such findings of fact and conclusions of law must be reversed. W.Va.Code § 49-5-10(a) [1977]."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MM · State v. DWC“(d) The court may, upon consideration of the child's mental and physical condition, maturity, emotional attitude, home or family environment, school experience and similar personal factors, transfer a juvenile proceeding to criminal jurisdiction if there is a probable cause to believe that:”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“With reference to such rehabilitation prospects the court shall consider the child's mental and physical condition, maturity, emotional attitude, home or family environment, school experience and the like.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MM
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.