196 W. Va. 416 - State v. Knuckles’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State of Tennessee v. Kacy Dewayne Cannon (2008), State of West Virginia v. Lillie Mae Trail (2015)
26 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 Burks v. United States · Lockhart v. Nelson · Cincinnati Milacron Chemicals, Inc. v. Blankenship · 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · 194 W. Va. 3 - State v. Miller
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he authentication requirement of the West Virginia Rules of Evidence requires only that a party introducing evidence demonstrate that the evidence is in fact what its proponent claims. W. Va. R. Evid. 901(a). The “chain of custody” rule is simply a variation of this principle and requires that a prosecutor seeking to introduce evidence must establish a chain of custody from the time the items were taken to show that they are in substantially the same condition as when they were seized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“waiver necessarily precludes salvage by plain error review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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