204 W. Va. 520 - State Ex Rel. State v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2012
10 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 United States v. Miller · Ford v. United States · 199 W. Va. 12 - State Ex Rel. Hoover v. Berger · 188 W. Va. 197 - Lieving v. Hadley · 160 W. Va. 314 - State Ex Rel. Peacher v. Sencindiver
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" ' “A writ of prohibition will not issue to prevent a simple abuse of discretion by a trial court. It will only issue where the trial court has no jurisdiction or having such jurisdiction exceeds its legitimate powers. W.Va.Code, 53-1-1.” Syl. pt. 2, State ex rel. Peacher v. Sencindiver, 160 W.Va. 314 , 233 S.E.2d 425 (1977). Syllabus point 3, State ex rel. McDowell County Sheriff’s Dept. v. Stephens, 192 W.Va. 341 , 452 S.E.2d 432 (1994).” Syllabus Point 1, State ex rel. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. v. Kaufman, 197 W.Va. 282 , 475 S.E.2d 374 (1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Yjoung children cannot be expected to be exact regarding times and dates[;] a child’s uncertainty as to time and date upon which the offense charged was committed goes to the weight rather than to the admissibility of the evidence. Nonsuit may not be allowed on the ground that the State’s evidence fails to fix any definite time for the offense where there is sufficient evidence that defendant committed each essential act of the offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No indictment or other accusation shall be quashed or deemed invalid ... for omitting to state, or stating imperfectly, the time at which the offense was committed.”
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.