200 W. Va. 432 - State v. Quinn’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Sullivan (1998), Quinn v. Haynes (2000)
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 188 W. Va. 85 - State v. Lewis · 193 W. Va. 32 - State Ex Rel. Allen v. Bedell · Covington v. State · United States v. Cardinal · Little v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny time we permit children to be crossexamined about allegations of prior abuse, the possibility of causing additional trauma to a child is unfortunately an attendant reality to any potential for the disclosure of truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Quinn v. Haynes“brutal attack on the general credibility of the child”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Quinn v. Haynes
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.