190 W. Va. 299 - State v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2010
20 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 Michelson v. United States · United States v. Tomaiolo · United States v. Green · State v. Louk · State v. Louk
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a]n opening statement ..., having no evidentiary value, cannot operate to place an issue in controversy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is quite well established that, where self-defense is relied upon to excuse a homicide, and there is evidence tending to establish that defense, it is competent to show the character of the deceased party for violence, and especially is this true when the person charged with the crime has knowledge of such traits of character, for the evidence, not only to some extent characterizes the acts of the deceased, but also has a tendency to show the mental state in which the defendant was at the time to the homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The simple mention of character issues during an opening statement does not lay a proper foundation for, or open the door for, the introduction of otherwise inadmissible character evidence on rebuttal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Davis
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.