State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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

1. “[a] conviction in a criminal case is not warranted by the extrajudicial confession of the accused, alone. The confession must be corroborated in a material and substantial manner by evidence aliunde of the carpus delicti. The corroborating evidence, however, need not of itself be conclusive; it is sufficient if[,] when taken in connection with the confession, the crime is established beyond reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 195 W. Va. 630 - State v. Garrett

2. “A trial court's decision regarding the voluntariness of a confession will not be disturbed unless it is plainly wrong or clearly against the weight of the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 175 W. Va. 185 - State v. Cook