169 W. Va. 142 - State v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2013
15 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 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey · 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley · 165 W. Va. 741 - State v. Craft · 157 W. Va. 209 - State v. West · Carter v. Commonwealth
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not disputed that a criminal defendant in a felony trial is entitled to exercise six peremptory strikes against a panel of twenty jurors who are free from challenge for cause under common law. Under this rule, it is reversible error to deny a valid challenge for cause even if the disqualified juror is later struck by a peremptory challenge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although we are of opinion that the trial court would not have abused its discretion by striking the two prospective jurors ... we conclude that the trial court did not commit error by refusing to strike the jurors for cause. The defense did not attempt to question those jurors to determine to what extent the employer-employee relationship might have influenced them, and there is no evidence indicating that they had any bias or prejudice toward the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“exclusive possession of recently stolen property may include joint possession by two or more persons,”
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.