206 W. Va. 573 - State v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · 194 W. Va. 138 - Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L. · Roberts v. United States · 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly · 171 W. Va. 445 - Nelson v. West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Board
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a criminal defendant has been placed on probation after successfully completing a program of rehabilitation under the Youthful Offenders Act, W.Va.Code §§ 25-4-1 to -12, and such probation is subsequently revoked, the circuit court has no discretion under W.Va.Code § 25-4-6 to impose anything other than the sentence that the defendant would have originally received had he or she not been committed to a youthful offender center and subsequently placed on probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“grants discretionary authority to the circuit courts to suspend imposition of sentence, and place a qualifying defendant in a program of rehabilitation at a youthful-offender center”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impose the sentence the young adult offender would have originally received had the offender not been committed to the center[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.