163 W. Va. 447 - State v. Messinger’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2001
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 159 W. Va. 738 - State v. Pendry · 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · 162 W. Va. 103 - State v. Bolling · 159 W. Va. 236 - State v. Spadafore · 151 W. Va. 194 - State Ex Rel. Combs v. Boles
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.
“Recently, in State v. Bolling, supra, we stated that under the provisions of W.Va.Code, 51-7-1 and -2, all proceedings in a criminal trial must be reported; however, the failure to report the proceedings may not in all instances constitute reversible error. Whether failure to report constitutes reversible error or not cannot be determined by a mechanistic rule, but must depend on the facts of each case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the law, where a homicide is proved, the presumption is that it is murder in the second degree. If the State would elevate it to murder in the first degree, the burden is upon the State to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the characteristics of that crime as previously related herein. If the accused would reduce the crime to manslaughter, the burden is upon him.”
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.