172 W. Va. 138 - State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 175 W. Va. 616 - State v. Miller (1985), 195 W. Va. 630 - State v. Garrett (1995)
84 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 Simmons v. United States · United States v. Agurs · Jackson v. Denno · Williams v. Florida · Baldwin v. New York Williams
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An indictment for a statutory offense is sufficient if, in charging the offense, it substantially follows the language of the statute, fully informs the accused of the particular offense with which he is charged and enables the court to determine the statute on which the charge is based.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“That, DONALD S. [B.], being a male person fourteen years old and older and she, Monicia [B.], being eleven years old and less on the 7th day of August, 1987, and prior to the filing of this Information, in the said County of Kanawha, unlawfully and feloniously subject the said Monicia [B.] to sexual contact, to-wit: by touching the female sex organ of the said Monicia [B.] by the said DONALD S. [B.], in violation of chapter [61], Article 8B, Section 7, West Virginia Code, 1931, as amended, against the peace and dignity of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a trial court grants a pre-trial discovery motion requiring the prosecution to disclose evidence in its possession, non-disclosure by the prosecution is fatal to its case where such non-disclosure is prejudicial. The non-disclosure is prejudicial where the defense is surprised on a material issue and where the failure to make the disclosure hampers the preparation and presentation of the defendant’s case.”
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.