204 W. Va. 48 - State v. James B.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas · 194 W. Va. 3 - State v. Miller · 183 W. Va. 641 - State v. Edward Charles L. · 155 W. Va. 562 - State v. Bowman
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he mother’s testimony was properly admitted at trial by the lower court, since the children were present to testify and be cross-examined; the mother added nothing substantive to the children’s direct testimony, and primarily related the child’s statements not to prove the truth of the matter asserted, but to explain why she took them to the psychologist^]”
1 later decision 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.