179 W. Va. 612 - State v. McPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2011
13 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 Burks v. United States · United States v. Bailey · Utica Mutual Insurance v. Talley · Ohio v. Fleet Aerospace Corp. · 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the Court instructs the jury that if you believe from the evidence in this ease that the crime charged against the defendant rests alone on the testimony of the prosecuting witness, E[_] M[_], then you should scrutinize her testimony with care and caution; although a conviction of a sexual offense may be obtained on the uncorroborated testimony of the victim, unless such testimony is inherently incredible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Haid“the traditional challenge to the competency of minors ... does not require a psychological profile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.