176 W. Va. 553 - State v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Meadows v. Legursky (1990), 193 W. Va. 91 - Hines v. Hills Department Stores, Inc. (1995)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Screws v. United States · Rushen v. Spain · 160 W. Va. 234 - State v. Boyd · 165 W. Va. 837 - State v. Moore · 156 W. Va. 385 - 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In a prosecution under Code, 61-3-18, for buying or receiving stolen goods, a jury must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused acted with a ‘dishonest purpose’ before it can find him guilty of the offense, and the accused is entitled to have the jury properly instructed on the question of his intent.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If any person buy or receive from another person, or aid in concealing, or transfer to a person other than the owner thereof, any stolen goods or other thing of value, which he knows or has reason to believe has been stolen, he shall be deemed guilty of the larceny thereof, and may be prosecuted although the principal offender be not convicted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A few states punish one who ‘conceals’ or ‘withholds’ stolen property with knowledge that it is stolen. This wording subjects to liability one who received stolen property without knowledge of its stolen character but who, on later learning the truth, hides it from its owner or otherwise refuses to deliver it up.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.