162 W. Va. 588 - State v. Grimmer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 166 W. Va. 153 - State v. Petry (1980), 182 W. Va. 345 - State v. Fortner (1989)
52 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 Chapman v. State of California · 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas · 158 W. Va. 647 - State Ex Rel. Grob v. Blair · 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley · Mills v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““statutory felony-murder rule so as not to require proof of the elements of malice, premeditation or specific intent to kill. It is deemed sufficient if the homicide occurs during the commission of, or the attempt to commit, one of the enumerated felonies.” Sims at 841 (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the record fails to show that the defendant entered a plea but does show affirmatively that he was fully advised and fully aware of the nature of the charge against him; that he had effective counsel who made many motions and filed many pleadings on his behalf and afforded him a reasonably good defense; that a jury trial was afforded the defendant and in fact was held, thereby permitting him to confront his accusers; that he was not, by such failure, deprived of any constitutional or statutory protections designed to afford him a fair trial; and that circumstances reveal that he received a fair trial, any such failure to enter a plea, will be considered harmless error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An accessory before the fact is a person who being absent at the time and place of the crime, procures, counsels, commands, incites, assists or abets another person to commit the crime, and absence at the time and place of the crime is an essential element of the status of an accessory before the fact.””
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.