194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 519 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 524 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 196 W. Va. 294 - State v. LaRock (1996), 196 W. Va. 223 - In Interest of Tiffany Marie S. (1996)
2 federal appellate · 519 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 169 W. Va. 191 - State v. Hatfield · State v. Clifford · State v. Dodds · 172 W. Va. 1 - State v. Schrader
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 524 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although premeditation and deliberation are not measured by any particular period of time, there must be some period between the formation of the intent to kill and the actual killing, which indicates the killing is by prior calculation and design. This means there must be an opportunity for some reflection on the intention to kill after it is formed.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he duration of that period cannot be arbitrarily fixed. The time .in which to form a deliberate and premeditated design varies as the minds and temperaments of people differ and according to the circumstances in which they may be placed. Any interval of time between the forming of the intent to kill and the execution of that intent ... is sufficient to support a conviction for first degree murder.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[ajlthough premeditation and deliberation are not measured by any particular period of time, there be some period between the formation of the intent to kill and the actual killing, which indicates the killing is by prior calculation and design. This means there must be an opportunity for some reflection on the intention to kill after it is formed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.