State v. Harper

How courts have described this case

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

• confirming that the statutory language “‘murder by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving,’ does not require that premeditation or a specific intent to kill has to be shown”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Fortner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-12-14· cited 92×
• Collman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-08-23· cited 79×
• State v. Wade
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-11· cited 43×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-09-08· cited 38×
• State v. Berry
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2011-01-20· cited 27×
• State of West Virginia v. Jeremy Lambert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-09-17· cited 26×
• State v. Waldron
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2005-12-16· cited 22×
• Stuckey v. Trent
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-07-02· cited 15×
• State v. Mayo
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-03-25· cited 14×
• State v. Foster
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2007-11-19· cited 13×
• State v. Kirkland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1994-07-15· cited 13×
• State v. Plumley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-07-12· cited 11×
• State v. Deskins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-04-06· cited 11×
• State v. Beegle
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-12-16· cited 9×
• State v. Parsons
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-05-16· cited 9×
• State of West Virginia v. Amber Lee Richardson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2018-03-07· cited 9×
• State v. Miller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-12-14· cited 7×
• State v. Richards
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-03-22· cited 5×
• State v. Hoselton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-07-22· cited 5×
• State v. Mullins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-03-03· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Nye & Nissen v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-05-31· cited 977×
• United States v. Peoni
  Second Circuit· 1938-12-12· cited 651×
• State v. Starkey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-05-02· cited 220×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-11-16· cited 212×
• State v. Hatfield
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-01-26· cited 169×
• United States v. Richard Beck
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-02-04· cited 132×
• State v. Sims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-11-14· cited 117×
• Richmond v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1976-10-08· cited 100×
• State v. Petry
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-16· cited 100×
• State v. Clawson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-09-23· cited 94×
• Jahnke v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1984-12-12· cited 90×
• State v. Humphrey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-12-10· cited 79×
• State v. Payne
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-06-30· cited 71×
• State v. Lord
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1938-10-08· cited 71×
• State v. Beckett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-12-16· cited 61×
• State v. Buck
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-07-15· cited 61×
• People v. Repke
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1895-01-04· cited 54×
• State v. McAllister
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1978-12-15· cited 53×
• State v. Ellsworth Wayne
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-11· cited 47×
• State v. Rowe
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-10-23· cited 47×