166 W. Va. 630 - State v. Haddox’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 170 W. Va. 428 - State v. Buck (1982), 173 W. Va. 1 - State v. Young (1983)
23 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 · 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey · 160 W. Va. 234 - State v. Boyd · 163 W. Va. 593 - State v. Rowe · 132 W. Va. 322 - State v. Simon
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The discretion of the trial court in ruling on the propriety of argument by counsel before the jury will not be interfered with by the appellate court, unless it appears that the rights of the complaining party have been prejudiced, or that manifest injustice resulted therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the requisite criminal intent would be the intent to do great bodily harm, or a criminal intent aimed at life, or the intent to commit a specific felony, or the intent to commit an act involving all the wickedness of a felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In a criminal prosecution, it is constitutional error to give an instruction which supplies by presumption any material element of the crime charged.””
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.