167 W. Va. 655 - State v. Critzer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 180 W. Va. 342 - State v. England (1988), 176 W. Va. 454 - State v. Davis (1986)
45 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 Neil v. Biggers · 160 W. Va. 234 - State v. Boyd · 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · 159 W. Va. 909 - State v. Casdorph · 164 W. Va. 173 - State v. Brewster
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The prosecuting attorney occupies a quasi-judicial position in the trial of a criminal case. In keeping with this position, he is required to avoid the role of a partisan, eager to convict, and must deal fairly with the accused as well as the other participants in the trial. It is the prosecutor’s duty to set a tone of fairness and impartiality, and while he may and should vigorously pursue the State’s case, in so doing he must not abandon the quasi-judicial role with which he is cloaked under the law.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is improper for a prosecutor in this State to ‘[ajssert his personal opinion as to the justness of a cause, as to the credibility of a witness ... or as to the guilt or innocence of the accused....’ ABA Code DR7-106(C)(4) in part.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An attorney for the state may prosecute vigorously, as long as he deals fairly with the accused; but he should not become a partisan, intent only on conviction. And, it is a flagrant abuse of his position to refer, in his argument to the jury, to material facts outside the record, or not fairly deducible therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamrick
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.