State Ex Rel. Skinner v. Dostert

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[t]he prosecutor, like any other executive officer, must have sound reasons for his actions”
• holding that the prosecuting attorney “secur[es] convictions on behalf of the State.”
• “prosecutor in his discretion may decide which of several possible charges he will bring against an accused”
• courts have an obligation pursuant to Section 17 of Article 3 of the West Virginia Constitution “to apply the law and decide the ease unfettered by any influences alien to the case or the process”
• “prosecutor in his discretion may decide which of several possible charges he will bring against an accused”
• “The prosecuting attorney, in his sound discretion, may refrain from prosecuting a cause or, having commenced a prosecution, may move the dismissal of a cause, . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tennant v. Marion Health Care Foundation, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-06-15· cited 308×
• State Ex Rel. R.L. v. Bedell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-12-16· cited 111×
• Myers v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 83×
• State Ex Rel. Diva P. v. Kaufman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-22· cited 54×
• 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×
• State Ex Rel. Shorter v. Hey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 42×
• State ex rel. Koppers Co. v. International Union of Oil Chemical & Atomic Workers
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-10-28· cited 29×
• State of West Virginia v. Gary Lee Rollins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-06-17· cited 26×
• SER Patrick Morrisey, Attorney General v. W. Va. Ofc. of Disciplinary Counsel, etc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-10-15· cited 26×
• City of Fairmont v. Pitrolo Pontiac-Cadillac Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-10-17· cited 25×
• State Ex Rel. Lambert v. Stephens
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-17· cited 22×
• State Ex Rel. Norwood v. Drumm
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1985-04-30· cited 22×
• State of West Virginia v. Robert Scott R., Jr.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-01-29· cited 16×
• State v. Cabell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-04-03· cited 15×
• State Ex Rel. Ginsberg v. Naum
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-07-11· cited 14×
• Donaldson v. Gainer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-06-30· cited 14×
• Gilkerson v. Lilly
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-03-05· cited 14×
• State Ex Rel. Farley v. Spaulding
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-11-09· cited 14×
• Robert L. Holcomb v. David Ballard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-10-17· cited 12×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pauley v. Kelly
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-02-20· cited 248×
• Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-05-30· cited 114×
• State v. La Porte
  Washington Supreme Court· 1961-09-28· cited 67×
• 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×
• County Court v. Boreman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1890-12-06· cited 41×
• Cedar Rapids Human Rights Commission v. Cedar Rapids Community School District
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-10-16· cited 38×
• State v. Bowles
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1905-02-11· cited 38×
• Moundsville v. Fountain
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1885-11-28· cited 32×
• State Ex Rel. Burdette v. Scott
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-13· cited 27×
• Haldeman v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1886-09-18· cited 26×
• Hensley v. City of Norfolk
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-10-10· cited 25×
• Macon v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-03-01· cited 14×
• Packet Co. v. Bellville
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1904-04-01· cited 10×
• Green v. Jones
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-03-24· cited 10×
• Duncan v. Tucker County Board of Education
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-03-09· cited 9×
• State Ex Rel. White v. Melton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 7×
• Peery v. Coffman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-06-23· cited 2×