State v. Farmer

How courts have described this case

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

• reiterating that constitutional errors will be deemed harmless when it can be shown there is no reasonable possibility the violation contributed to the conviction
• stating that constitutional errors will be deemed harmless where there is no reasonable possibility the violation contributed to the conviction.
• 90-year sentence for kidnapping not based on some impermissible factor was not subject to review
• evidence obtained by a private citizen conducting an illegal citizen’s arrest would not be excluded at trial for the offense charged because private citizens cannot violate the Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Sugg
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-03-10· cited 161×
• State v. Slater
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-07-30· cited 63×
• State v. Hopkins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-01-31· cited 39×
• State v. King
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-07-12· cited 28×
• Parham v. Horace Mann Insurance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-11· cited 23×
• State v. Phillips
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-04-10· cited 22×
• State v. Woodson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-11-06· cited 21×
• Sale Ex Rel. Sale v. Goldman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-07-20· cited 20×
• Town of Mount Pleasant v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-04-26· cited 13×
• State v. Haught
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2005-12-16· cited 12×
• RONNIE R. v. Trent
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-07-17· cited 11×
• State v. Murrell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-12-16· cited 9×
• State v. Farr
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-03-03· cited 7×
• Southern v. Burgess
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-11-15· cited 3×
• Harry Edgar Farmer v. Evelyn Seifert, Warden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-02-22
• State of West Virginia v. Roger P.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-02-14

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Gerstein v. Pugh
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-18· cited 4,350×
• Fahy v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1963-12-02· cited 1,743×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• State v. Goodnight
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-02-24· cited 428×
• State v. Thomas
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1974-03-19· cited 399×
• State v. General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1959-03-03· cited 369×
• State v. Vance
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-01-22· cited 156×
• Consumer Advocate Division of the Public Service Commission ex rel. Residential and Small Commercial Customers of Hope Gas, Inc. v. Public Service Commission
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-11-03· cited 78×
• United States v. Charles E. Neiswender, A/K/A Lee Anderson
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-01-09· cited 44×
• Pyles v. Boles
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1964-04-15· cited 42×
• State v. Houston
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 42×
• State v. Canby
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-02-20· cited 40×
• State v. Oldaker
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 36×
• State v. Layton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1993-07-23· cited 33×
• City of McMechen v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1960-10-18· cited 20×
• State v. Muegge
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-07-15· cited 18×
• State v. Kelley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-11-21· cited 15×
• Neiswender v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-21· cited 1×