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← 164 W. Va. 326 - Greene v. Edwards

164 W. Va. 326 - Greene v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2020
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 157 W. Va. 417 - State Ex Rel. Hawks v. Lazaro · 163 W. Va. 168 - State v. Bush · Schutte v. Schutte

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) An adequate written notice detailing the grounds and underlying facts on which commitment is sought; (2) the right to counsel and, if indigent, the right to appointed counsel; (3) the right to be present to cross-examine, to confront, and to represent the witnesses; (4) the standard of proof to be by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence; and (5) the right to a verbatim transcript of the proceedings for purposes of appeal. [ Greene v. Edwards, 263 S.E. 2d at 663 ].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “liberty is a right of the very highest nature,”
    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.