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← 216 W. Va. 298 - Rohrbaugh v. State

216 W. Va. 298 - Rohrbaugh v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
March 2007
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 194 W. Va. 138 - Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L. · 159 W. Va. 108 - Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner · 195 W. Va. 573 - Appalachian Power Co. v. State Tax Department · 135 W. Va. 877 - State v. Epperly · 152 W. Va. 571 - State v. Elder

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-five years, or fined not more than ten thousand dollars and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-five years.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.