211 W. Va. 532 - State v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
November 2007
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Irvin v. Dowd · 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · 196 W. Va. 294 - State v. LaRock · 160 W. Va. 234 - State v. Boyd · 128 W. Va. 299 - Yuncke v. Welker
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.
“We traditionally have not applied [Beckett ] to mandate the automatic disqualification of a prospective juror merely because of a ... social relationship with an employee of a law enforcement agency who is actively involved in the prosecution of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here are cases in which the murderer himself says, `I am so sorry; I am so sorry. I beg your forgiveness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“None of those facts are in dispute. No one said those things didn't take place . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.