State v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2007
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Toussie v. United States · 196 W. Va. 178 - Burgess v. Porterfield · Waters v. United States · Benes v. United States · Smith v. Smith
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, in a criminal prosecution, a conviction for assault and battery is had under an indictment charging the defendant with the commission of a felony, under Code, 61-2-9, which indictment was not returned within one year- after the offense charged in the indictment was committed, the conviction is barred 'under Code, 61-11-9, and is void....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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