183 W. Va. 286 - State v. Whitt’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2000
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 159 W. Va. 191 - Call v. McKenzie · 173 W. Va. 290 - State v. Guthrie · 159 W. Va. 482 - Louk v. Haynes · 172 W. Va. 322 - State v. Hodges · 164 W. Va. 712 - State v. Olish
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.
““[Wjhere a challenge to a judge’s impartiality is made for substantial reasons which indicate that the circumstances offer a possible temptation to the average man as a judge not to hold the balance nice, clear and true between the State and the accused, a judge should recuse himself.””
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.