State v. Burks’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1980
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey · 162 W. Va. 602 - State v. Frazier · 163 W. Va. 752 - State v. Milam
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Federal and this State’s Constitutions forbids a second trial for the purpose of affording the prosecution another opportunity to supply evidence which it failed to muster in the first proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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