177 W. Va. 629 - State v. St. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2004
8 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 150 W. Va. 151 - State Ex Rel. Titus v. Hayes · 121 Ill. App. 3d 1072 - People v. Kerker · People v. Robinson · 101 W. Va. 157 - Sears v. Fisher · Ex parte State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Room and board in the county jail is a public charge on the county, and may not therefore be collected from a convicted criminal as a cost incident to the prosecution in the absence of statutory authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chanze“Allowance and recovery of costs was unknown at common law, and therefore only costs specifically allowed by statute may be recovered.”
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.