220 W. Va. 246 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 W. Va. 657 - State v. Guthrie · Caso v. United States · 196 W. Va. 294 - State v. LaRock · 180 W. Va. 342 - State v. England · 158 W. Va. 314 - Parker v. Knowlton Construction Company, Inc.
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.
“As a general rule, the refusal to give a requested jury instruction is reviewed for an abuse of discretion. By contrast, the question of whether a jury was properly instructed is a question of law, and the review is de novo.”
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.