179 W. Va. 811 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 135 W. Va. 688 - Daugherty v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · State v. McCausland · 175 W. Va. 572 - State v. Sandler · 83 W. Va. 745 - Compton v. County Court of Marshall County · 77 W. Va. 804 - State v. Littleton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether good cause is shown; whether the new evidence is significant; whether the jury would be likely to give undue emphasis, prejudicing the party against whom it is offered; whether the evidence is controversial in nature; and, whether the reopening is at the request of the jury or a party.”
2 later decisions 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.