State v. Britton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that prosecuting attorney owes affirmative duty of fairness to accused
• recognizing that an accused’s conduct could demonstrate waiver
• counseling a defendant about a plea agreement created a conflict of interest disqualifying a prosecutor
• “As the primary responsibility of a prosecuting attorney is to seek justice, his affirmative duty to an accused is fairness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Boyd
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-03-29· cited 204×
• United States v. Cara Woods, Jr.
  Sixth Circuit· 1977-02-02· cited 154×
• State Ex Rel. Grob v. Blair
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-04-01· cited 134×
• State v. Burton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-10· cited 125×
• State v. Starr
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-06-24· cited 121×
• State v. Clawson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-09-23· cited 94×
• Myers v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 83×
• People v. Green
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1979-01-26· cited 72×
• State Ex Rel. Skinner v. Dostert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-04-03· cited 66×
• State v. Dudick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-03-25· cited 61×
• Martin v. Leverette
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-10· cited 57×
• State v. McCraine
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-05-20· cited 36×
• State v. Ruth
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1981-11-24· cited 34×
• Good v. Handlan
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-04-03· cited 34×
• State v. Clark
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-06-23· cited 31×
• State Ex Rel. Moran v. Ziegler
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 27×
• Nicholas v. Sammons
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-11-19· cited 25×
• State Ex Rel. Goodwin v. Cook
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-10-27· cited 24×
• State v. Phillips
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1984-02-22· cited 22×
• State of West Virginia v. Christopher Wayne Bowling
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-10-08· cited 18×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Glasser v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-09· cited 10,035×
• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• Fahy v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1963-12-02· cited 1,743×
• People v. Gerold
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1914-12-16· cited 151×
• State v. Smith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1972-12-19· cited 125×
• Hugh Wendell MacDonald v. James A. Musick
  Ninth Circuit· 1970-06-02· cited 56×
• State v. Montgomery
  Washington Supreme Court· 1909-12-23· cited 51×
• State v. Osborne
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1909-07-20· cited 49×
• State v. Tate
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1936-11-04· cited 45×
• State v. Leigh
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1955-11-12· cited 42×
• State v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1959-03-09· cited 41×
• Corbin v. Broadman
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1967-11-10· cited 30×
• Anderson v. State of North Carolina
  W.D. North Carolina· 1963-10-07· cited 24×
• Young v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-07-16· cited 24×
• State v. Wilson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-03-05· cited 19×
• State v. Harr
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1973-03-06· cited 19×
• State Ex Rel. Arbraugh v. Boles
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-12-18· cited 19×
• State Ex Rel. Post v. Boles
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-04-03· cited 14×