State v. Sapp

How courts have described this case

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

• “The defendant does not claim he was suddenly provoked by something [the victim] said or did; he claims he did not kill him, [someone else] did. Based upon this evidence, an instruction on voluntary manslaughter was not warranted.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Leonard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2005-06-22· cited 12×
• State of West Virginia v. Paul Darren Spinks
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-06-16· cited 10×
• Jerry Steen Sapp, Jr. v. David Ballard, Warden
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-04-29

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Guthrie
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-07-21· cited 1,064×
• State v. LaRock
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-03-20· cited 772×
• Sands v. Security Trust Company
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1958-04-01· cited 185×
• State v. Bradshaw
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-03-27· cited 123×
• Crain v. Lightner
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-06-17· cited 75×
• Duquesne Light Co. v. State Tax Dept.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-12-03· cited 55×
• State v. Garrett
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-12-11· cited 55×
• State v. Grubbs
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1987-12-21· cited 54×
• State v. Critzer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1981-07-17· cited 39×
• State v. Cokeley
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1976-06-29· cited 39×
• State v. McGuire
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-18· cited 28×
• State v. Beegle
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-12-16· cited 9×