169 W. Va. 620 - State v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2019
19 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 156 W. Va. 409 - State v. McArdle · 161 W. Va. 384 - State v. Sette · 161 W. Va. 67 - Wilhelm v. Whyte · 156 W. Va. 492 - State v. Harr
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant must be given a reasonable opportunity to study the evidence and prepare his cross-examination_ [Wjhere the State has physical evidence that is crucial to the issue of defendant's guilt and that must be subjected to scientific analysis to assist in determining the defendant’s guilt, the defendant has the right to have that evidence independently analyzed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven if this were a 'proper' case in which to claim surprise, the appellant failed to move for a continuance, and, therefore, waived his right to one”
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.