175 W. Va. 345 - McCroskey v. Proctor’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 147 W. Va. 771 - Thornsbury v. Thornsbury · 167 W. Va. 873 - Groves v. Compton · 146 W. Va. 636 - Henthorn v. Long · 168 W. Va. 531 - State v. Mitter · 124 W. Va. 446 - Lynch v. Alderton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' " ‘[t]he nature and extent of the examination, however, should be left largely to the discretion of the trial court.’ State v. Stonestreet, Point 1 Syllabus, 112 W.Va. 668 [ 166 S.E. 378 (1932)].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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