State v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably James Graham v. State of West Virginia (1912), 163 W. Va. 129 - State Ex Rel. McMannis v. Mohn (1979)
19 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 Moore v. State of Missouri · King v. Lynn
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our law does not make it an offense or crime for one to have been convicted more than once. Former conviction is not an integral part of the second or new offense. The law simply enjoins longer sentence because of former conviction. It does not prosecute and punish for the former conviction. It cannot do that. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““They are merely ancillary proceedings for the rightful sentence which the law mandatorily enjoins upon those already held.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacOmber v. State
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.