State Ex Rel. Carson v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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

• “Penal statutes must be strictly construed against the State and in favor of the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

54 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-29· cited 95×
• State Ex Rel. Hamstead v. Dostert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-03-09· cited 47×
• State Ex Rel. Morgan v. Trent
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-11-17· cited 42×
• State v. Crenshaw
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-04-09· cited 40×
• State v. McCraine
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-05-20· cited 36×
• State Ex Rel. Goff v. Merrifield
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 34×
• State Ex Rel. Atkinson v. Wilson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-07-09· cited 29×
• State v. Bailey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 28×
• State Ex Rel. Faircloth v. Catlett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-07-08· cited 27×
• Myers v. Murensky
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-11· cited 24×
• Graf v. Frame
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-12-05· cited 24×
• Hennum v. City of Medina
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-03-02· cited 23×
• State v. Choat
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-11-18· cited 20×
• State v. Cole
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-11-22· cited 20×
• Baker v. Civil Service Commission
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 18×
• State v. Turley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-11-13· cited 18×
• Lycans v. Bordenkircher
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-11-18· cited 17×
• Fraley v. Civil Service Commission
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-04-14· cited 16×
• State v. Brumfield
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-06-12· cited 15×
• Carr v. Lambert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-03-14· cited 15×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-03-03· cited 369×
• United States v. Maurice
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia· 1823-05-15· cited 117×
• Dunbar v. Brazoria County
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1949-10-27· cited 77×
• McConiha v. Guthrie
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1882-12-09· cited 75×
• State Ex Rel. Heck's, Inc. v. Gates
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-04-13· cited 65×
• State ex rel. City of Huntington v. Lombardo
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-06-15· cited 55×
• State ex rel. Key v. Bond
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1923-06-06· cited 53×
• State ex rel. Cecil v. Knapp
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1958-11-11· cited 50×
• Rakes v. Ferguson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1963-03-19· cited 39×
• Stowers v. Blackburn
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1955-11-22· cited 37×
• Work v. Rogerson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-05-04· cited 26×
• State Ex Rel. State Road Commission v. Taylor
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1967-03-21· cited 22×
• State Ex Rel. Valley Distributors, Inc. v. Oakley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1969-06-10· cited 19×
• Cunard Steamship Co. v. Hudson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1923-02-27· cited 16×
• State Ex Rel. McCormick v. Hall
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1966-02-01· cited 13×
• State Ex Rel. Turner v. McClure
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-03-26· cited 5×
• Anderson v. Industrial Commission
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1943-10-07· cited 4×