188 W. Va. 85 - State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 198 W. Va. 339 - State Ex Rel. Suriano v. Gaughan (1996), 193 W. Va. 133 - State Ex Rel. Rusen v. Hill (1995)
68 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Will v. United States · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · United States v. Wilson · De Beers Consol Mines v. United States
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State may seek a writ of prohibition in this Court in a criminal case where the trial court has exceeded or acted outside of its jurisdiction. Where the State claims that the trial court abused its legitimate powers, the State must demonstrate that the court’s action was so flagrant that it was deprived of its right to prosecute the case or deprived of a valid conviction. In any event, the prohibition proceeding must offend neither the Double Jeopardy Clause nor the defendant’s right to a speedy trial. Furthermore, the application for a writ of prohibition must be promptly presented.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained in this article, whenever in any criminal case an indictment is held bad or insufficient by the judgment or order of a circuit court, the State, on the application of the attorney general or the prosecuting attorney, may obtain a writ of error to secure a review of such judgment or order by the supreme court of appeals....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Macri“shall lie as a matter of right in all cases of usurpation and abuse of power, when the inferior court has not [ sic ] jurisdiction of the subject matter in controversy, or, having such jurisdiction, exceeds its legitimate powers.”
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.