187 W. Va. 600 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2017
8 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 Braunfeld v. Gibbons · 89 Ill. 2d 469 - People v. Robinson · 164 W. Va. 216 - State v. Vance · 167 W. Va. 830 - State v. Beck · Wanstreet v. Bordenkircher
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.
“[t]he primary purpose of our recidivist statutes, W. Va.Code, 61-11-18 (1943), and W. Va.Code, 61-11-19 (1943), [which] is to deter felony offenders, meaning persons who have been convicted and sentenced previously on a penitentiary offense, from committing subsequent felony offenses[,]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘“The appropriateness of a life recidivist sentence under our constitutional proportionality provision found in Article III, Section 5 [of the West Virginia Constitution], will be analyzed as follows: We give initial emphasis to the nature of the final offense which triggers the recidivist life sentence, although consideration is also given to other underlying convictions. The primary analysis of these offenses is to determine if they involve actual or threatened violence to the person since crimes of this nature have traditionally carried the more serious penalties and therefore justify application of the recidivist statute.’ Syl.Pt. 7, State v. Beck, 167 W.Va. 830 , 286 S.E.2d 234 (1981).” Syllabus Point 2, State v. Housden, 184 W.Va. 171 , 399 S.E.2d 882 (1990). 7”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wyne“[Bjefore expiration of the term at which such person was convicted, ... and upon an information filed by the prosecuting attorney, setting forth the records of conviction and sentence, or convictions and sentences, as the case may be, and alleging the identity of the prisoner with the person named in each....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wyne
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.