207 W. Va. 530 - State v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
March 2016
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · Bullock v. United States · Sanabria v. United States · United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Double Jeopardy Clause in Article III, Section 5 of the West Virginia Constitution, provides immunity from further prosecution where a court having jurisdiction has acquitted the accused. It protects against a second prosecution for the same offense after conviction. It also prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense.® 9”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions.” Blockburger, 284 U.S. at 304 , 52 S.Ct. at 182 , 76 L.Ed. 306 . Therefore”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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