168 W. Va. 684 - State v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 1987
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 168 W. Va. 707 - State v. Harless · State v. McCoy
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person commit, or attempt to commit, robbery by partial strangulation or suffocation, or by striking or beating, or by other violence to the person, or by the threat or presenting of firearms, or other deadly weapon or instrumentality whatsoever, he shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than ten years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Although the terms of 'armed' and ‘unarmed’ have historically been applied to the two types of robbery under the statute, the more accurate terms would be ‘aggravated’ and 'unaggravated.'”
1 later decision 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.