183 W. Va. 130 - State v. Kerns’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 205 W. Va. 450 - Bowers v. Wurzburg (1999), 224 W. Va. 160 - Peters v. Rivers Edge Mining, Inc. (2009)
73 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 J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · 172 W. Va. 312 - State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey · 151 W. Va. 628 - Willis v. O'BRIEN · 172 W. Va. 457 - Meadows v. Lewis · 175 W. Va. 525 - State Ex Rel. Cohen v. Manchin
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a particular construction of a statute would result in an absurdity, some other reasonable construction, which will not produce such absurdity, will be made.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is the `duty of this Court to avoid whenever possible a construction of statute which leads to absurd, inconsistent, unjust or unreasonable results'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whenever any person is found guilty of, or pleads guilty to, a crime in a court which is not a court of record, he may, at any time thereafter, file with the court of record to which an appeal would lie, or with the judge thereof in vacation, his petition in writing, together with a transcript of the docket of the court in which he was convicted, requesting that he be placed on probation. Upon the filing of such petition and transcript, said court of record or the judge thereof, shall have power to suspend the execution of the sentence of the lower court and to release the petitioner on probation upon such conditions as to said court or judge may seem fitting.”
2 later decisions 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.