State v. Shores’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1975 · most notably Holmgren v. United States (1910), 158 W. Va. 905 - State v. Starr (1975)
1 federal appellate · 46 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 Hopt v. People · State v. Cain · State v. Robinson · State v. Poindexter · 28 W. Va. 499 - State v. Halida
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ;jury had seen the indictment with the indorsement, before any motion was made with reference thereto. Every member of the jury may have been in court and heard the verdict read against Hall, and still that would not liave disqualified them as jurors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ That case was decided forty years ago, and we have no inclination to disturb it now. Whatever may have been decided elsewhere, we hold the law to be settled in Virginia and this state that such a statute is not mandatory, but directory.””
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.