168 W. Va. 474 - State v. Shafer’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · 165 W. Va. 588 - State v. Clawson · 166 W. Va. 337 - State Ex Rel. Watson v. Ferguson · 161 W. Va. 30 - Winter Ex Rel. Winter v. MacQueen · State Ex Rel. Dowdy v. Robinson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant shall be charged in the same indictment, in a separate count for each offense, if the offenses charged, whether felonies or misdemeanors or both, are of the same or similar character, or are based on the same act or transaction, or are two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. D.E.G.
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.