State Ex Rel. Atkinson v. Wilson

How courts have described this case

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

• “there exists a distinction between a court’s power to evolve common law principles in areas in which it has traditionally functioned, i.e., the tort law, and in those areas in which the legislature has primary or plenary power, i.e., the creation and definition of crimes and penalties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Booth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 113×
• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Lawrence
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-03-20· cited 82×
• Vo v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-01-30· cited 74×
• Mountain West Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Brewer
  Montana Supreme Court· 2003-04-24· cited 72×
• Farley v. Sartin
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-12-13· cited 64×
• State v. Lamy
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2009-04-08· cited 35×
• State v. Trudell
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1988-04-29· cited 34×
• State v. Arbaugh
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-04-07· cited 28×
• State v. McGuire
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-18· cited 28×
• Meadows v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-01-26· cited 25×
• Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Tsapis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-12-06· cited 18×
• State of West Virginia v. Stephanie Elaine Louk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-05-27· cited 9×
• Kennedy v. State
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-04-03· cited 6×
• People v. Joseph
  New York County Courts· 1985-11-21· cited 4×
• State v. Anonymous
  Connecticut Superior Court· 1986-07-01· cited 4×
• Castro v. Melchor
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2016-01-29· cited 1×
• State of West Virginia ex rel. Scott Phalen v. Craig Roberts
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2021-06-16

Cites

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

• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• James v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1961-05-15· cited 855×
• The United States v. Hudson and Goodwin
  Supreme Court· 1812-03-14· cited 761×
• Keeler v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1970-06-12· cited 360×
• People v. Greer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-02-22· cited 298×
• Bradley v. Appalachian Power Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-07-10· cited 279×
• State v. Starkey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-02· cited 220×
• Hilen v. Hays
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1984-07-05· cited 213×
• United States v. Eaton
  Supreme Court· 1892-04-25· cited 202×
• Morningstar v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-03· cited 186×
• Summerfield v. Superior Court, Maricopa Cty.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-04-24· cited 131×
• State v. Burton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-10· cited 125×
• State v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-11-14· cited 117×
• State v. Petry
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-16· cited 100×
• Ranger v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-06· cited 98×
• State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-07-17· cited 75×
• State v. Louk
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 73×
• Baldwin v. Butcher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1971-07-02· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Cass
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-08-16· cited 67×
• State Ex Rel. Heck's, Inc. v. Gates
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-04-13· cited 65×