169 W. Va. 94 - State v. Helmick’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 173 W. Va. 317 - State v. Peyatt (1983), State v. Louk (1983)
32 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Jencks v. United States · 160 W. Va. 234 - State v. Boyd · 151 W. Va. 1 - State v. Hamric · 159 W. Va. 738 - State v. Pendry · 161 W. Va. 530 - State v. Pratt
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not reversible error to refuse to give instructions offered by a party that are adequately covered by other instructions given by the court. Syllabus Point 20, State v. Hamric, 151 W.Va. 1 , 151 S.E.2d 252 (1966).””
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.