178 W. Va. 87 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 193 W. Va. 20 - State Ex Rel. Frazier v. Meadows (1994), 179 W. Va. 742 - Bennett v. Warner (1988)
33 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 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey · 141 W. Va. 55 - State v. Huffman · 172 W. Va. 295 - State v. Williams · 170 W. Va. 428 - State v. Buck · 160 W. Va. 567 - Stern Bros., Inc. v. McClure
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 7(c)(1) of the West Virginia Rules of Criminal Procedure supersedes the provisions of W.Va. Code, 62-9-1, to the extent that the indorsement of the grand jury foreman and attestation of the prosecutor are no longer required to be placed on the reverse side of the indictment. Such indorsement and attestation are sufficient if they appear on the face of the indictment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder article eight, section three of our Constitution, the Supreme Court of Appeals shall have the power to promulgate rules for all of the courts of the State related to process, practice, and procedure, which shall have the force and effect of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“under our rule-making authority ... rules promulgated by this Court have the force and effect of law and will supersede procedural statutes that conflict with them.”
2 later decisions 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.