176 W. Va. 688 - State v. Dolin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 196 W. Va. 294 - State v. LaRock (1996), 183 W. Va. 641 - State v. Edward Charles L. (1990)
156 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 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas · State v. Jerousek · 167 W. Va. 830 - State v. Beck · State v. Craig · 126 W. Va. 895 - State v. Beacraft
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he victim’s testimony as a crucial element of the State’s case must be examined in context in order to establish a complete record of events, thereby reducing the incredibility of the victim’s testimony. Therefore, carving out a sexual propensity exception allows the finder of facts to weigh the credibility of the victim’s unabridged testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.