200 W. Va. 637 - State v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 203 W. Va. 561 - State v. Salmons (1998), State v. Flippo (2002)
47 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Morissette v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Nye & Nissen v. United States · United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant test for determining whether a juror is biased is whether the juror had such a fixed opinion that he or she could not judge impartially the guilt of the defendant. Even though a juror swears that he or she could set aside any opinion he or she might hold and decide the case on the evidence, a juror's protestation of impartiality should not be credited if the other facts in the record indicate to the contrary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]ost rulings of a trial court regarding the admission of evidence are reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard.... an appellate court reviews de novo the legal analysis underlying a trial court's decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] judgment will not be reversed because of the admission of improper or irrelevant evidence when it is clear that the verdict of the jury could not have been affected thereby.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.