State v. Yoes’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1993 · most notably Betts v. Brady (1942), 149 W. Va. 155 - State Ex Rel. May v. Boles (1964)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Ketterman v. Dry Fork Railroad Co. · Barnes v. Commonwealth · Sahlinger v. People · State v. Raney · Craft v. Mann
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mere privilege.... inserted for the purpose of abrogating the common-law practice under which prisoners, accused of felony, were denied such right, and to restrain the Legislature from denying it by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cuppett v. Duckworth
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.