187 W. Va. 201 - State Ex Rel. Karr v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Trapnell · 186 W. Va. 195 - Smithson v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Cottonwood Estates, Inc. v. Paradise Builders, Inc. · 186 W. Va. 457 - Garlow v. Zakaib · People v. Garcia
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lawyer shall not act as advocate at a trial in which the lawyer is likely to be a necessary witness except where: (1) the testimony relates to an uncontested issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Branch v. State
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.