163 W. Va. 248 - State v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
April 1997
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 144 W. Va. 504 - West Virginia State Bar v. Earley · 159 W. Va. 805 - State Ex Rel. Partain v. Oakley · Fond Du Lac Plaza, Inc. v. Reid · State v. Gary
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a presentence report has been prepared and presented the court shall, upon request, permit the defendant, or his counsel if he is so represented, prior to imposition of sentence, to read the report exclusive of any recommendation as to sentence, but not to the extent that in the opinion of the court the report contains diagnostic opinion which might seriously disrupt a program of rehabilitation, sources of information obtained upon a promise of confidentiality or any other information which, if disclosed, might result in harm, physical or otherwise, to the defendant or other persons and the court shall afford the defendant or his counsel an opportunity to comment on the report, and, in the discretion of the court, to introduce testimony or other information relating to any alleged factual inaccuracy contained in the presentence report.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“exclusive of any recommendation as to sentence.”
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.