State v. Myers

How courts have described this case

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

• “The double jeopardy bar against multiple punishments is to prohibit judges from imposing more penalty than the legislature has sanctioned.”
• under the negligent homicide and involuntary manslaughter statutes, a defendant may receive as many sentences as the number of deaths he has wrongfully caused
• “In any case of homicide there must be proof of the identity of the deceased and the causation of death.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 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×
• State Ex Rel. Simpkins v. Harvey
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1983-06-29· cited 95×
• State v. Fortner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-12-14· cited 92×
• State v. Dunlop
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-06-13· cited 76×
• State v. Easton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-12-07· cited 60×
• State v. Fairchild
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-11-18· cited 48×
• State v. Broughton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-04-08· cited 47×
• State v. Rahman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-12-20· cited 31×
• Williams v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1989-10-31· cited 26×
• State v. Green
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-07-10· cited 25×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-07-03· cited 22×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 21×
• State v. Choat
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-11-18· cited 20×
• State v. LaBounty
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2005-11-18· cited 20×
• State v. Turley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-11-13· cited 18×
• State v. Sayre
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-07-24· cited 16×
• Todd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1995-01-10· cited 16×
• State v. Brumfield
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-06-12· cited 15×
• State v. Cain
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-07-17· cited 14×
• State v. Hose
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-05-28· cited 14×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• United States v. Wilson
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-25· cited 1,334×
• Jeffers v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 764×
• Conner v. Griffith
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1977-09-20· cited 117×
• Vigil v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1977-04-26· cited 90×
• State Ex Rel. Watson v. Ferguson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 58×
• State v. Mitter
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-12-15· cited 41×
• State v. Whitley
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1964-10-12· cited 39×
• State ex rel. Dowdy v. Robinson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 36×
• State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Hamilton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-04-28· cited 32×
• Myers v. Murensky
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-11· cited 24×
• State v. Vollmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-11-13· cited 24×
• Gilkerson v. Lilly
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-03-05· cited 14×
• State v. Riley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1982-02-24· cited 5×