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← 51 WVA 232 - State v. Beatty

State v. Beatty’s Empirical Analysis

1902

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
4
states following
May 1981
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1981

1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

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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 First National Bank of Wellsburg v. Kimberlands · Shrewsbury v. Miller · Richardson v. Donehoo · State v. Cobbs · Griffith v. Corrothers

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

  1. “It is not error for a court to omit to instruct a jury that it may punish murder in the first degree with either death or confinement in the penitentiary, unless asked to do so.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “refuse to plead or answer, and do not confess his guilt,”
    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.