84 W. Va. 85 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 151 W. Va. 364 - State v. Riley (1966), 165 W. Va. 572 - State v. Demastus (1980)
39 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 State v. Harrison · Wilson v. City of Wheeling · Buster v. Holland · Dimmey v. Wheeling & E. G. Railroad · 82 W. Va. 601 - State v. Alie
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The granting of a continuance is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court ... and the refusal thereof is not ground for reversal unless it is made to appear that the Court abused its discretion, and that its refusal has worked injury and prejudice to the rights of the party in whose behalf the motion was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“trials of crimes, and misdemeanors * * shall be * * * without unreasonable delay,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]ur statute governing the granting of continuances in criminal actions . . . .”
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.