State v. Bragg’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas (1974), 160 W. Va. 314 - State Ex Rel. Peacher v. Sencindiver (1977)
45 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 133 W. Va. 584 - State v. Lewis · 130 W. Va. 74 - State v. Taylor · Halstead v. Horton · 132 W. Va. 675 - State v. Reppert · 135 W. Va. 106 - State v. Painter
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ruling of a trial court in a criminal case permitting the prosecuting officer, over objection of the defendant, to comment before the jury upon the failure of defendant to testify in his own behalf, violates Section 19, Chapter 152, Code, and Section 5, Article III of the Constitution, and constitutes reversible error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he discretion of the trial court in ruling on the propriety of argument by counsel before the jury will not be interfered with by the appellate court, unless it appears that the rights of the complaining party have been prejudiced, or that manifest injustice resulted therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under Code, 61-11-12, the venue for murder lies in the county where the fatal injury is inflicted, or if death occurs in another county, venue also lies in such other county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fabian
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.