183 W. Va. 686 - State v. Perolis’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2000
15 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 141 W. Va. 55 - State v. Huffman · 173 W. Va. 43 - State v. Kopa · United States v. Bryant · United States v. Hicks · 159 W. Va. 761 - Casto v. Martin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether ... [the victim] planned to run away from home does not matter. The only thing that matters is that ... [the defendant and his wife] told ... [the victim's] parents that ... [the victim] planned to run away from home. The act of making such a statement to ... [the victim's] parents would give ... [the victim] cause to be angry with ... [the defendant and his wife], regardless of the truth of the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he evidence the defense was attempting to elicit was ... [not] irrelevant, ... because it would have enlightened the jury as to a possible motive for ... [the victim] to fabricate her story.”
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.