166 W. Va. 77 - State v. Keeton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2011
22 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · 87 Wash. 2d 783 - State v. Wright · 135 W. Va. 106 - State v. Painter · State v. Robinson · 165 W. Va. 448 - State Ex Rel. D. D. H. v. Dostert
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court instructs the jury that if you believe from the evidence that Johnny Miller killed Lorelei Reed as charged in the indictment, and at the time of such killing Johnny Miller was under the influence of alcohol voluntarily taken by him, then such intoxication is in law no excuse for the act done by Johnny Miller unless you believe from the evidence that such intoxication was such as did, in fact, deprive him at the time of the killing of the element of premeditation, in which event you can find Johnny Miller guilty of no greater offense than murder in the second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Provided an accused did not intentionally become intoxicated so as to prepare himself for the commission of the crime, intoxication of an accused is a defense to a charge of murder of the first degree, when the degree of intoxication is such as to render the accused incapable of premeditation and deliberation.””
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.