91 W. Va. 553 - State v. Snodgrass’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1965
10 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 Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Pettibone v. Nichols · Ker v. People · State v. Brewster · Baker v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assuming, without deciding, that the defendant’s arrest was unlawful under the circumstances, the sheriff not having a warrant at the time, this would not discharge him from prosecution for the offense, nor would it justify his discharge from custody after a proper warrant had been issued and he had been held under that warrant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Swilling
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.