164 W. Va. 173 - State v. Brewster’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Deck v. Missouri (2005), 169 W. Va. 191 - State v. Hatfield (1982)
3 federal appellate · 77 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Jackson v. Denno · Illinois v. Allen · Estelle v. Williams
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] criminal defendant has the right, absent some necessity relating to courtroom security or order, to be tried free of physical restraints.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““A judgment of conviction will not be reversed because of improper remarks made by a prosecuting attorney to a jury which do not clearly prejudice the accused or result in manifest injustice.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Much the same thought underlies the distinction drawn by the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97 , 96 S.Ct. 2392 , 49 L.Ed.2d 342 (1976), between evidence required to be disclosed through formal discovery requests and evidence required to be disclosed regardless of requests under the constitutional rule for producing exculpatory material as set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 , 83 S.Ct. 1194 , 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). Cf. State v. Belcher, W. Va., 245 S.E.2d 161 (1978); Annot., 34 A.L.R.3d 16 , 38 (1970).””
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.