187 W. Va. 737 - State v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]his Court believes that the Legislature, by inserting specific language in W.Va. Code, 17B-4-3(b), relating to imprisonment in the ‘penitentiary’ in conjunction with language relating to a ‘mandatory jail sentence’, departed from its usual method of describing sanctions for crimes and intended that individuals convicted serve actual jail sentences and not be eligible for the usual panoply of options that result in less onerous conditions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 W. Va. 635 - State v. Lewis

2. “such person shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than three years and, in addition to such mandatory jail sentence, shall be fined not less than three thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 191 W. Va. 635 - State v. Lewis

3. “[t]his deviation from the mandatory confinement ... shall exist until the state correctional facility under construction at Mt. Olive is complete and open for the housing of inmates.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 191 W. Va. 635 - State v. Lewis