205 W. Va. 673 - State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
5
states following
February 2015
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 W. Va. 138 - Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L. · Reichelt v. Gates · 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · Vrettos v. Plainfield Post Office · Famor v. Brown
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n off-duty municipal police officer employed by a private entity as a security guard retains his or her official police officer status even in the private employment, unless it is clear from the nature of the officer's activities that he or she is acting in an exclusively private capacity or engaging in his or her private business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.