75 W. Va. 7 - State v. Wetzel’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Webb v. Commonwealth (1963), 162 W. Va. 602 - State v. Frazier (1979)
38 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Jackson v. State · State v. Fasset · State v. Taylor · Sellers v. Dugan · State v. Moyer
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The attorneys for the State make the point in their brief that the failure of defendant to except to the action of the court in overruling the demurrers to the several pleas in abatement, was a waiver of the error. We do not think so. Such an exception was not necessary. The order of the court shows that the pleas were filed and that the court considered them and sustained the demurrers thereto. The pleas therefore became as much parts of the record as the indictment, or as an order of the court, and no exception to the court’s ruling was necessary. The cases cited and relied on by counsel in support of their proposition are all cases in which pleas were tendered, but not filed, and rejected. In such case it seems that an order of the court is necessary to make the rejected plea a part of the record, but not so where the plea is filed and held bad on demurrer. The matters complained of were properly called to the attention of the court by pleas in abatement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inherent in the grand jury system with all the force of a statutory enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coblentz v. State“The law holds inviolate the secrecy of proceedings before the grand jury.”
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.