182 W. Va. 365 - State v. Satterfield’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 167 W. Va. 830 - State v. Beck · 172 W. Va. 138 - State v. Hall · 166 W. Va. 743 - State Ex Rel. Skinner v. Dostert · 173 W. Va. 133 - State Ex Rel. Hamstead v. Dostert · 163 W. Va. 705 - State Ex Rel. Burdette v. Scott
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he prosecuting attorney is vested with discretion in the management of criminal causes, which discretion is committed to him or her for the public good and for vindication of the public interest. Thus, the prosecutor may decide which of several possible charges to bring against an accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An indictment for a statutory offense is sufficient if, in charging the offense, it substantially follows the language of the statute, fully informs the accused of the particular offense with which he is charged and enables the court to determine the statute on which the charge is based.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]efore exercising this discretion the prosecutor has a duty to investigate the facts, with care and accuracy, to examine the available evidence, the law and the facts, and intelligently to weigh the chances of successful termination of the prosecution.”
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.