Spry v. Boles’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.2d 332 · 1962
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably State v. Boles (1964), Thomas v. Cox (1983)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 143 W. Va. 601 - State Ex Rel. Housden v. Adams · 146 W. Va. 392 - State Ex Rel. Cox v. Boles · Nathan Johnson v. E. H. Tucker, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prior to his admission of his identity and prior to the imposition of the life sentence * * * denied to the prisoner `due process of law' and consequently the sentence imposed under the statute was void.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Boles · State v. Boles“In the interval between that decision and the filing of the present petition, the state authorities have taken no steps to rectify the silence of the order of conviction on due cautioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boles“is silent as to whether or not the Court duly cautioned the [prisoner].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Boles
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.