175 W. Va. 64 - State v. Ellsworth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably 182 W. Va. 302 - Matter of Jonathan P. (1989), 177 W. Va. 688 - State Ex Rel. W.Va. Department of Human Services v. Cheryl M. (1987)
55 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 Dunaway v. New York · Fare v. Michael C. · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Gibson v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under W. Va.Code, 49-5-8(d), when a juvenile is taken into custody, he must immediately be taken before a referee, circuit judge, or magistrate. If there is a failure to do so, any confession obtained as a result of the delay will be invalid where it appears that the primary purpose of the delay was to obtain a confession from the juvenile.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] child in custody must immediately be taken before a referee or judge of the circuit court and in no event shall a delay exceed the next succeeding judicial day.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he validity of such a confession, ... will turn on the custodial circumstances as we have outlined in State v. Stanley. ... [Wjhere a suspect is not free to leave the officer’s place of questioning, then an illegal detention has occurred and a confession obtained under such circumstances, even though preceded by Miranda warnings, would be invalid unless there was a break in the causal connection between the illegal detention and the confession.”
3 later decisions 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.