State v. Adkins

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that criminal retrial is barred “after a judgment of acquittal is entered upon a determination of the merits”
• “evidence regarding sexual predilections or conduct is not admissible at trial unless it is clearly relevant”
• it is error to assume that a judgment of acquittal will automatically bar a retrial
• “The . . . proper function of a court of appeals is to review the decision below on the basis of the record that was before the [lower] court.” (footnote omitted)
• “We find it necessary to reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court of Lincoln County on the basis of one of the errors assigned and address other errors assigned on this appeal that may recur at any possible retrial of the defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Cooper
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 145×
• State v. Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-14· cited 122×
• State v. Toste
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-02-11· cited 99×
• State v. Madera
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-02-14· cited 67×
• State v. Miller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-11-08· cited 58×
• State v. Flippo
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-11-27· cited 58×
• State v. Flint
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-03-11· cited 53×
• State v. Ashcraft
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-11-10· cited 44×
• State v. Johnson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-05-21· cited 37×
• State v. Cecil
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 37×
• State v. Jackson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-12-15· cited 35×
• State v. Pancake
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-09-21· cited 32×
• Barlow v. Hester Industries, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-11-15· cited 30×
• State v. Cook
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-07-15· cited 25×
• State Ex Rel. Forbes v. Canady
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 24×
• State v. Wyant
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-03-22· cited 21×
• State Ex Rel. State v. Reed
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-01-29· cited 20×
• State v. Messer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-12-10· cited 15×
• State v. Moore
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-03-24· cited 12×
• State v. Cheshire
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-01-27· cited 11×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co.
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-04· cited 1,460×
• United States v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-25· cited 1,334×
• State v. Vance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-12-19· cited 121×
• State v. Petry
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-16· cited 100×
• State v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-10· cited 96×
• State v. Grimm
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-09-23· cited 62×
• State Ex Rel. Watson v. Ferguson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 58×
• State v. Boyd
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-13· cited 50×
• State v. Daggett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-13· cited 50×
• State v. Milam
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-20· cited 48×
• State ex rel. Dowdy v. Robinson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 36×
• State v. Church
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-10· cited 32×
• State v. Hamrick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-07-15· cited 31×
• State v. Bennett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-03-26· cited 29×
• State v. Gangwer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-11-03· cited 24×
• State Ex Rel. Betts v. Scott
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-06-04· cited 18×
• State v. Mollohan
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-02· cited 8×
• State Ex Rel. Kincaid v. Spillers
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-07-15· cited 6×