State v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• “The trial court is in the best position to judge the sincerity of a [witness]; therefore, its assessment is entitled to great weight.”
• “[i]neffective assistance of counsel claims raised on direct appeal are presumptively subject to dismissal . . . . Such claims should be raised in a collateral proceeding rather than on direct appeal to promote development of a factual record sufficient for effective review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Salmons
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-11-04· cited 96×
• State v. White
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2011-08-18· cited 90×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-01-25· cited 86×
• State v. Wallace
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-06-15· cited 83×
• State v. Browning
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-03-17· cited 72×
• O'DELL v. Miller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-06-26· cited 61×
• State v. Easton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-12-07· cited 60×
• State v. Flippo
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-11-27· cited 58×
• State v. Jonas
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-12-01· cited 58×
• State Ex Rel. Appleby v. Recht
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-12-11· cited 51×
• State of West Virginia v. Timothy Ray Sutherland
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-06-05· cited 45×
• State v. Wade
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-11· cited 43×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-09-08· cited 38×
• Tracy v. Cottrell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-11-12· cited 34×
• State v. Newcomb
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2009-06-23· cited 33×
• Foster v. Sakhai
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2001-12-12· cited 32×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 32×
• State v. Hutchinson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 31×
• Hartwell v. Marquez
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-11-21· cited 31×
• State v. Swims
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2002-07-03· cited 29×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• United States v. Frady
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 5,791×
• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Hamling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 2,897×
• BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore
  Supreme Court· 1996-05-28· cited 2,781×
• Zafiro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 2,251×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• Thompson v. Keohane
  Supreme Court· 1995-11-29· cited 1,729×
• Russell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1962-05-21· cited 1,715×
• Morgan v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-15· cited 1,584×
• Smith v. Goguen
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 1,514×
• Patton v. Yount
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-26· cited 1,463×
• State v. Guthrie
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-07-21· cited 1,064×
• Hopt v. People of Territory of Utah
  Supreme Court· 1884-03-03· cited 1,005×