State v. Cox

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “that law enforcement officers do not have authority to promise immunity from prosecution in exchange for information, and such promises are generally unenforceable”
• holding unauthorized nonprosecution agreement between police and defendant was unenforceable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Myers v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 83×
• State v. Pancake
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-09-21· cited 32×
• State v. Foddrell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-11-18· cited 26×
• State v. Drachman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-06-15· cited 16×
• State v. Foddrell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-09-23· cited 13×
• State v. Elswick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-04-01· cited 10×
• State Ex Rel. Brown v. MacQueen
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 9×
• State v. Bogard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-02-16· cited 8×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1993-08-06· cited 7×
• State v. Peake
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2001-10-11· cited 4×
• State v. Sharpless
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-03-16· cited 2×
• State of West Virginia v. Stewart Jordan III
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-04-25

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Smith v. Hooey
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-20· cited 1,132×
• State v. Ellsworth Wayne
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-11· cited 47×
• Hammers v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1977-05-16· cited 35×
• Cunningham v. County Court of Wood County
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-02-25· cited 34×
• State Ex Rel. Stines v. Locke
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1975-12-19· cited 27×
• Application of Parham
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1967-08-04· cited 22×
• Brooks v. Narick
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-05· cited 21×
• Samsell v. State Line Development Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1970-04-07· cited 17×
• State v. Ashby
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1963-11-29· cited 12×
• State v. Crow
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1963-04-08· cited 11×
• State v. Sine
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1922-10-03· cited 7×