175 W. Va. 463 - State v. Clements’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 194 W. Va. 97 - Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc. (1995), 193 W. Va. 147 - State v. McGinnis (1994)
35 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3105 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Costello v. United States · United States v. Dinitz · 161 W. Va. 530 - State v. Pratt · State v. Smith
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the trial of a criminal case, a defendant who elects to testify may have his credibility impeached by showing prior convictions of perjury or false swearing and criminal convictions of making false statements with intent to deceive, but it is impermissible to impeach his credibility through any other prior convictions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In the trial of a criminal case, a defendant who elects to testify may have his credibility impeached by showing prior convictions of perjury or false swearing, but it is impermissible to impeach his credibility through any other prior convictions.””
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.