State v. Pruett’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Bowman (1993), 173 W. Va. 133 - State Ex Rel. Hamstead v. Dostert (1984)
2 district · 48 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Merrifield · State v. Finch · State v. Kilpatrick · Foley v. Ham · State v. Wilson
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““21-3808. Obstructing legal process or official duty. Obstructing legal process or official duty is knowingly and willfully obstructing, resisting or opposing any person authorized by law to serve process in the service or execution or in the attempt to serve or execute any writ, warrant, process or order of a court, or in the discharge of any official duty. “Obstructing legal process or official duty in a case of felony is a class E felony. Obstructing legal process or official duty in a case of misdemeanor or a civil case is a class A misdemeanor.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Parker · State v. McCowan““A waiver of a trial by jury, voluntarily and regularly made by the defendant in a criminal action who knew and understood what he was doing, cannot afterward be withdrawn except in the court’s discretion, in the exercise of which the court may consider timeliness of the motion to withdraw and whether a delay of trial or inconvenience to the witnesses would result from granting such motion.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Aggravated escape from custody is: “(a) Escaping while held in lawful custody upon a charge or conviction of felony; or “(b) Escaping while held in custody on a charge or conviction of any crime when such escape is effected or facilitated by the use of violence or the threat of violence against any person. “Aggravated escape from custody is a class E felony.””
2 later decisions 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.