164 W. Va. 588 - State v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mikulan (1983), Fuenning v. SUPER. CT. IN AND FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA (1983)
36 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Leary v. United States · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Turner v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... simply removes the necessity of providing an expert at each trial to testify to the effect of that percentage of alcohol upon the defendant's ability to drive. [ State v. Ball, 264 S.E. 2d 844, 846 (W. Va. 1980).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under the influence of intoxicating liquor”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tischio
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.