State v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012
1 federal appellate · 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 132 W. Va. 373 - Hereford v. Meek · 135 W. Va. 106 - State v. Painter · 128 W. Va. 166 - State v. Foley · Giles v. United States · 133 W. Va. 435 - Somerville v. Dellosa
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person who is present, aiding and abetting another in the commission of an offense, is a principal in the second degree within the meaning of Code, 61-11-1, which provides, in part: Tn the case of every felony, every principal in the second degree, and every accessory before the fact, shall be punishable as if he were the principal in the first degree.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An indictment for accessory before the fact to murder will sustain a conviction of voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boles
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.