169 W. Va. 280 - State Ex Rel. Roark v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2004
16 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 256 F. Supp. 244 - United States Ex Rel. Elksnis v. Gilligan · 159 W. Va. 191 - Call v. McKenzie
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The attorney for the State and the attorney for the defense ... may engage in discussions with a view toward reaching an agreement that, upon the entering of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to ... a lesser or related offense, the attorney for the State will ... [m]ove for dismissal of other charges.”
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.