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174 W. Va. 1 - Ray v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
February 2013
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2013

1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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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. § 5003

Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Wolff v. McDonnell · Olim v. Wakinekona · United States v. Ju Toy · 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[n]o person shall be transported out of, or forced to leave the State for any offense committed within the same.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted. Penalties shall be proportioned to the character and degree of the offence. No person shall be transported out of, or forced to leave the State for any offence committed within the same; nor shall any person, in any criminal case, be compelled to be a witness against himself, or be twice put in jeopardy of life or liberty for the same offence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “generally defined as punishment by forced exile either for years or for life; [or] a punishment inflicted on criminals, by compelling them to quit a city, place, or country, for a period of time, or life. Historically, ‘banishment’ was inflicted principally upon political offenders, transportation being the word used to express a similar punishment of ordinary criminals.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.