Harman v. Frye

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• citizens must bring their complaints first to the prosecuting attorney or the appropriate law enforcement agency
• citizens must bring their complaints first to the prosecuting attorney or the appropriate law enforcement agency
• “[t]he legislature has clearly stated its intent to allow abused parties to present complaints to the magistrate, and a party who has suffered abuse has a statutory right to file a petition under W.Va. Code, 48-2A-4(a)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State Ex Rel. R.L. v. Bedell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-12-16· cited 111×
• Matter of Browning
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-11-18· cited 17×
• Horkulic v. Galloway
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-02-21· cited 16×
• State ex rel. Walls v. Noland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-07-16· cited 3×
• Gary Paul Amos v. Leonard Van Courtney
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-04-25
• Edward Jesse Dreyfuse, In re Application to Present Complaint to the Grand Jury
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2020-04-03
• SER State of WV v. The Honorable Bridget Cohee, Judge of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County, and Lateef Jabrall McGann
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2025-03-25

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Connecticut Action Now, Inc. v. Roberts Plating Company, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1972-03-21· cited 354×
• Pugach v. Klein
  S.D. New York· 1961-04-11· cited 75×
• State Ex Rel. Skinner v. Dostert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-04-03· cited 66×
• People v. Municipal Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1972-08-15· cited 60×
• State v. Britton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-03-26· cited 56×
• State Ex Rel . Preissler v. Dostert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-20· cited 53×
• Taliaferro v. Locke
  California Court of Appeal· 1960-07-18· cited 48×
• State Ex Rel. Hamstead v. Dostert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-03-09· cited 47×
• State Ex Rel. Miller v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 45×
• United States Ex Rel. Savage v. Arnold
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1975-07-21· cited 37×
• Edward P. Keenan, Jr. v. George F. McGrath
  First Circuit· 1964-03-09· cited 32×
• Moundsville v. Fountain
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1885-11-28· cited 32×
• State v. Gerry
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1896-06-05· cited 30×
• State v. Drake
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-05-18· cited 26×
• State Ex Rel. Wild v. Otis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1977-08-12· cited 23×
• Pittsburgh, Wheeling & Kentucky R. R. v. Applegate
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1882-12-09· cited 21×
• People of State of NY v. Muka
  N.D. New York· 1977-11-14· cited 17×
• State v. Rollins
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1987-08-19· cited 17×
• State v. Murphy
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1978-10-03· cited 15×
• United States v. Panza
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1974-02-28· cited 12×