186 W. Va. 33 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas · 170 W. Va. 123 - State v. Goodmon · 162 W. Va. 309 - State v. Williams · 169 W. Va. 778 - State v. Goff · 181 W. Va. 700 - State v. Smith
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.
“A confession that is involuntary in fact is inherently unreliable. A confession under torture is worthless for all purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gray
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.