168 W. Va. 417 - State v. Wimer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
December 1993
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 158 W. Va. 905 - State v. Starr · 162 W. Va. 467 - State v. Vance · 155 W. Va. 24 - State v. Plantz · 165 W. Va. 547 - State v. Grimm · 163 W. Va. 752 - State v. Milam
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There exists in the trial of an accused a presumption of sanity. However, should the accused offer evidence that he was insane, the presumption of sanity disappears and the burden is on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was sane at the time of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he testimony of expert witnesses is not exclusive and the jury has the right to weigh the testimony of all witnesses, experts and otherwise.”
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.