178 W. Va. 627 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
June 1999
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on United States v. Wilson · United States v. Dieter · United States v. Berrios · United States v. Hark · 69 Cal. 2d 491 - People v. Superior Court
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained in this article, whenever in any criminal case an indictment is held bad or insufficient by the judgment or order of a circuit court, the State, on the application of the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney, may obtain a writ of error to secure a review of such judgment or order by the supreme court of appeals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ur law is in accord with the general rule that the State has no right of appeal in a criminal case, except as may be conferred by the Constitution or a stat-ute_ Statutes giving the right of appeal to the State are also subject to scrutiny under constitutional double jeopardy principles.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It [the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia] shall have appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases, where there has been a conviction for a felony or misdemeanor in a circuit court, and such appellate jurisdiction as may be conferred upon it by law where there has been such a conviction in any other court. In criminal proceedings relating to the public revenue, the right of appeal shall belong to the State as well as to the defendant. It shall have such other appellate jurisdiction, in both civil and criminal cases, as may be prescribed by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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