162 W. Va. 800 - State v. Staley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 158 W. Va. 905 - State v. Starr · 150 W. Va. 571 - State v. Fortner · 162 W. Va. 297 - State v. Mason · 158 W. Va. 557 - Spaulding v. Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary · 161 W. Va. 747 - Arthur v. McKenzie
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the mandatory duty of a trial court, whether requested or not, to hear the evidence and determine in the first instance, out of the presence of the jury, the voluntariness of an oral or written confession by an accused person prior to admitting the same into evidence, and the failure to observe this procedure constitutes reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.