State v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant lay on the same bed in which the attacker raped the victim and patted the victim’s hand
• “The decision to declare a mistz’ial, dischaz’ge the juzy, and oz’der a new tz’ial in a cz'iminal ease is a matter within the sound discz’etion of the trial court.”
• “The decision to declare a mistrial, discharge the jury, and order a new trial in a criminal case is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Gill
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-03-24· cited 101×
• Reed v. Wimmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-10-27· cited 75×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-11-22· cited 55×
• State v. Lola Mae C.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-08-15· cited 21×
• State of West Virginia v. Donald Dunn
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-04-13· cited 18×
• State v. Sayre
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-07-24· cited 16×
• State v. Day
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-06-18· cited 12×
• State v. Fleming
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-03-07· cited 11×
• State of West Virginia v. David M. Corey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-04-23· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Parreira
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-08-04· cited 10×
• State of West Virginia v. Jack Jones
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-04-11· cited 6×
• State v. Sharp
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-09-16· cited 2×
• State of West Virginia v. Duane Hammock
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-10-18
• State of West Virginia v. Ray Dwayne Cook
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-02-12
• State of West Virginia v. Thomas Fitzwater
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-04-23
• Douglas Libert v. Joseph Kuhl, Magistrate
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-09-18
• State of West Virginia v. Thomas King
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-04-10
• State of West Virginia v. Robert Glenn Ford
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-08-31
• Smith, Freddie James
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-11-22
• State of West Virginia v. Luther Franklin Meadows
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-10-20

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Starkey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-02· cited 220×
• State v. Williams
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-27· cited 134×
• Sutton v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1985-01-18· cited 101×
• State v. Petry
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-16· cited 100×
• State v. Fortner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-12-14· cited 92×
• State v. McBee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-09-30· cited 81×
• State v. Adkins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 49×
• Huff v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-03-05· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Henderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-06· cited 47×
• Keeble v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1965-12-06· cited 40×
• State v. Goodwin
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1978-12-20· cited 38×
• Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority v. Zitko
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1964-12-14· cited 37×
• State Ex Rel. Brown v. Thompson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1965-06-15· cited 35×
• State v. Armstrong
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-04-22· cited 33×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 21×
• State v. Barnett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-10-10· cited 18×
• State v. Haines
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1972-11-28· cited 13×
• State v. Roubion
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-12-13· cited 10×
• Diaz v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1983-01-27· cited 3×