172 W. Va. 718 - State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey · 164 W. Va. 94 - Tug Valley Recovery Center, Inc. v. Mingo County Commission · 172 W. Va. 17 - Hodge v. Ginsberg · 164 W. Va. 763 - Thomas v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · 160 W. Va. 804 - State v. Cole
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he matter of probation is within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions 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.