172 W. Va. 720 - State v. Runner’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2015
7 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 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas · 165 W. Va. 741 - State v. Craft · 155 W. Va. 24 - State v. Plantz · 156 W. Va. 578 - State v. Duvernoy · People v. Belanger
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““statutes proscribing public intoxication serve two general purposes. First, they are designed to prevent nuisance and annoyance to members of the general public. Second, they also serve as a protection against offenders who endanger the well-being of themselves or others.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘ “[p]robable cause to make an arrest without a warrant exists when the facts and circumstances within the knowledge of the arresting officers are sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that an offense has been committed.” Point 1 Syllabus, State v. Plantz, [155] W.Va. [24] [ 180 S.E.2d 614 . (1971)].’ Syllabus Point 3, State v. Duvernoy, 156 W.Va. 578 , 195 S.E.2d 631 (1973).” Syl. Pt. 7, State v. Craft, 165 W.Va. 741 , 272 S.E.2d 46 (1980).”
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.