Hall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2001
2 district · 16 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 Scanlon v. Walshe · Chamberlain v. . the People · Kennedy v. State · Harward v. Harward · 107 W. Va. 563 - State v. Reed
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is undesirable however that there be different rules of evidence controlling the proof of the same fact in different proceedings, so what might be proved in a criminal proceeding could not be proved in a civil proceeding, and if any reasonable interpretation of the statute [Code, Art. 12, sec. 1 (1924)] will avoid that result it would be adopted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shelley v. Smith
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.