167 W. Va. 700 - State v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2015
13 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 142 W. Va. 18 - State v. Carduff · 161 W. Va. 40 - State v. Ellis · 157 W. Va. 702 - State v. Bennett · 114 W. Va. 736 - State v. Price and Bruce
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he extent of the cross-examination of a witness is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court; and in the exercise of such discretion, in excluding' or permitting questions on cross-examination, its action is not reviewable except in the case of manifest abuse or injustice. Syl. pt. 4, State v. Carduff, 142 W.Va. 18 , 93 S.E.2d 502 (1956), Syllabus, State v. Wood, 167 W.Va. 700 , 280 S.E.2d 309 (1981).”
4 later decisions 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.