179 W. Va. 199 - Thompson v. Steptoe’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2012
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 United States v. Wilson · Di Bella v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States · Cogen v. United States · United States v. Montos
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If relevant evidence is offered, the trial court may, in its discretion, reopen the suppression hearing, regardless of whether the evidence is newly discovered or merely omitted at the initial proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bozung
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.