163 W. Va. 615 - Gibson v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 162 W. Va. 212 - State v. Sims · 159 W. Va. 191 - Call v. McKenzie · 163 W. Va. 148 - State v. Bradley · 161 W. Va. 415 - Brooks v. Narick · 163 W. Va. 276 - State Ex Rel. Burton v. Whyte
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a guilty plea will be set aside based on the fact that the defendant was incompetently advised, it must be shown that (1) counsel did act incompetently; (2) the incompetency must relate to a matter which would have substantially affected the fact-finding process if the case had proceeded to trial; (3) the guilty plea must have been motivated by this error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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