205 W. Va. 657 - State v. Lightner’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
3
states following
November 2015
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Olano · Williams v. Florida · Baldwin v. New York Williams · United States v. Virginia Erection Corp. · 179 W. Va. 580 - State v. Neuman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any deviation from th[e] constitutional requirement [of twelve jurors] must be accomplished through a knowing and intelligent waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.