Barber v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth (1970), 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley (1966)
35 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 State v. Lapage · Limbaugh v. Commonwealth · Webb v. Commonwealth · Harold v. Commonwealth · Boyd v. Commonwealth
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a causal relation or logical and natural connection between the two acts, or [that] they ... form parts of one transaction.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the circumstances [of the other event] have no intimate conne[ct]ion with the main fact; if they constitute no link in the chain of evidence . . . they ought to be excluded, because they are irrelevant; [and] if they denote other guilt, they are not only irrelevant, but they do injury, because they have a tendency to [cause] prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no connection with the one under investigation. Such other acts of criminality . . . are not legally relevant and should not be [used] to prejudice the defendant or to create a probability of guilt.”
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.