State v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2009
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey · 171 W. Va. 342 - State v. Richey · 165 W. Va. 741 - State v. Craft · 165 W. Va. 572 - State v. Demastus · 140 W. Va. 547 - State v. McGraw
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Circumstantial evidence will not support a guilty verdict, unless the fact of guilt is proved to the exclusion of every reasonable hypothesis of innocence; and circumstances which create only a suspicion of guilt but do not prove the actual commission of the crime charged, are not sufficient to sustain a conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kelly
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.