179 W. Va. 139 - State v. Pennington’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2010
19 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Oregon v. Kennedy · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey
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.
““Under circumstances where it can reasonably be inferred that the prosecuting attorney has an interest in the outcome of a criminal prosecution beyond ordinary dedication to his duty to see that justice is done, the prosecuting attorney should be disqualified from prosecuting the case.” Syllabus Point 4, in part, State v. Knight, 168 W.Va. 615 , 285 S.E.2d 401 (1981).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A prosecution witness who has purportedly been afforded immunity from prosecution pursuant to W.Va.Code, 57-5-2 [1931], and who testifies against a defendant in a criminal proceeding is the only person who may assert the protection of that statute in regard to that grant of immunity. The defendant, however, in that criminal proceeding may not assert irregularities in regard to the granting of that immunity from prosecution. [Emphasis added].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"We note that the concept of ‘equitable immunity’ is not well-defined. Rowe v. Griffin, 676 F.2d 524 , 526 n. 3 (11th Cir.1982); United States v. Weiss, 599 F.2d 730 , 735 n. 9 (5th Cir.1979). Our research reveals the phrase is used in several cases, but without precise definition. See, e.g., Rowe, supra; Weiss, supra; United States v. Donahey, 529 F.2d 831, 832 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 828 , 97 S.Ct. 85 , 50 L.Ed.2d 91 (1976).””
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.