State v. Thompson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding judges in criminal cases must exercise restraint and impartiality in questioning witnesses
• declaring that plain error doctrine should be used “sparingly”
• “We do not believe that it is necessary to pry into the mind of the trial judge or to speculate as to his motives in asking questions or making comments during the trial. We need only to view the judge’s conduct from the perspective of the members of the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital Assoc. v. Susan Nutter
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-11-17· cited 36×
• State v. Woodson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2008-11-06· cited 21×
• State v. Fields
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-04-21· cited 19×
• State v. Poore
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-11-19· cited 2×
• State of West Virginia v. Charles B.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-05-17
• State of West Virginia v. Phillip Gregory Johnson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-06-13
• State of West Virginia v. Bernard Lee Greer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-11-21
• State of West Virginia v. Paul E. Horne
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-04-10
• State of West Virginia v. James I.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-08-31
• State of West Virginia v. Charles Franklin Plymail
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-11-20
• State of West Virginia v. John H. Knoll
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-09-16
• State of West Virginia v. Edward James Perod
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-02-21
• Kevin Hanson v. Larry Keeling, Jr.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-09-25
• State of West Virginia v. D.S.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2017-11-17
• Miller v. Fountainhead Homeowners Association, Inc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2021-10-29
• State of West Virginia v. Anthony Devaughan Johnson
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2022-10-17
• State of West Virginia v. Alexander Paul Delorenzo
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2022-11-17
• William H. Cecil, III v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mt. Olive Correctional Complex
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2024-11-26
• State of West Virginia v. Chad M. Eldredge
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2025-05-22

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Miller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-05-18· cited 981×
• State v. LaRock
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-03-20· cited 772×
• Hood v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-10-12· cited 180×
• State v. Burton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-04-10· cited 125×
• State v. England
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1988-09-16· cited 116×
• United States v. Frank Guglielmini and John Testa
  Second Circuit· 1967-10-04· cited 65×
• United States v. John Valenti
  Second Circuit· 1995-07-06· cited 48×
• Sharpton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-04-04· cited 29×
• State v. Sandler
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1985-10-30· cited 28×
• State v. Farmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1997-07-03· cited 20×
• Alexander Ex Rel. Ramsey v. Willard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2000-12-08· cited 5×