166 W. Va. 558 - State v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably 172 W. Va. 295 - State v. Williams (1983), 167 W. Va. 411 - State v. Daggett (1981)
37 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 Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Bowen v. Yuckert · United States v. Harriss · Bell 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It would appear to the court that unlawful sexual intercourse could not possibly occur without a certain amount of unlawful sexual contact and it seems unreasonable to us that the Legislature contemplated the division of one act of rape into its component elements for the purposes of punishment." 166 W.Va. at 569, 276 S.E.2d at 320 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] criminal statute must be set out with sufficient definiteness to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is prohibited by statute and to provide adequate standards for adjudication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since many statutory crimes are duplica-tive, it is well established that separate statutory crimes may be the “same offense” under the double jeopardy clause, even though they are not identical in either constituent elements or actual proof. Brown v. Ohio, 432 U.S. 161 , 97 S.Ct. 2221 , 53 L.Ed.2d 187 (1977). Each case ultimately turns upon whether the Legislature intended an act to be punished by only one or by more than one statutory provision. Gore v. United States, 357 U.S. 386 , 78 S.Ct. 1280 , 2 L.Ed.2d 1045 (1958). 166 W.Va. at 567, 276 S.E.2d at 319-320 .”
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.