168 W. Va. 185 - State v. Van Isler’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Lockhart v. Nelson (1988), State v. Gray (1986)
27 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 Burks v. United States · Arizona v. Manypenny · Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co. · United States v. Mandel · State v. Wood
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“W. Va.Code, 49-5-17(d) ..., does not authorize a court to permit juvenile law enforcement records to be used in a criminal case as evidence in chief in the State’s ease.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“W.Va.Code, 49-5-17 [1978], is part of a comprehensive legislative scheme relating to the handling, disposition and rehabilitation of juvenile offenders. Part of the purpose and intent behind that scheme is to protect the anonymity of juvenile offenders and to assure that they are accorded a fresh start, unhaunted by past trouble, when they reach their majority. This purpose runs throughout Chapter 49 of the Code. The Legislature has used direct forceful language to effectuate this purpose. W.Va.Code, 49-7-1 [1978], for example, provides in part: “All records of the state department, the court and its officials, law-enforcement agencies and other agencies or facilities concerning a child as defined in this chapter shall be kept confidential and shall not be released[.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““W.Va.Code, 49-5-17(d) [1978], does not authorize a court to permit juvenile law enforcement records to be used in a criminal case as evidence in chief in the State’s case.” “The use of a juvenile fingerprint card, or testimony derived from it, as evidence in a criminal trial of the person fingerprinted after that person has become an adult is reversible error because such use of juvenile records is not permitted by W.Va.Code, 49-5-17 [1978].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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