State v. Whitt

How courts have described this case

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

• “Our review of the constitutional issue raised in this case is plenary.”
• “The law is clear that if a witness has declared unequivocally that he will not testify on the basis of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, the witness should not be placed on the stand and required to make that claim in front of the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of West Virginia v. Jason Paul Lambert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-10-25· cited 11×
• State v. Waldron
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2012-01-19· cited 7×
• State of West Virginia v. Larry Allen Hayes, Jr.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-05-17
• State of West Virginia v. Daniel L. Herbert
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2014-11-25
• State of West Virginia v. Michael Palmer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2016-06-03
• Mullins v. Westfall, Superintendent
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2022-01-12
• State of West Virginia v. Michael C.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2023-04-25

Cites

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

• United States v. Agurs
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-24· cited 6,537×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• Baxter v. Palmigiano
  Supreme Court· 1976-04-20· cited 2,133×
• Taylor v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1988-03-28· cited 1,952×
• Hoffman v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-28· cited 1,874×
• United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 1,404×
• Chrystal R.M. v. Charlie A.L.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-06-21· cited 871×
• United States Ex Rel. Bilokumsky v. Tod
  Supreme Court· 1923-11-12· cited 464×
• United States v. Emanuel Johnson
  First Circuit· 1973-12-20· cited 176×
• Daniel J. Bowles v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1970-11-20· cited 175×
• United States v. Melvin P. Deutsch
  Second Circuit· 1993-02-11· cited 101×
• State v. Blake
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-10-11· cited 73×
• United States v. William J. Vandetti
  Sixth Circuit· 1980-06-18· cited 64×
• Phillip Leon M. v. Greenbrier County Board of Education
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-12-13· cited 63×
• United States v. Juan Reyes, United States of America v. Samuel M. Burton
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-05-14· cited 56×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2002-04-11· cited 53×
• State v. Harman
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-09-16· cited 49×
• State v. Jenkins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1995-12-11· cited 46×
• State v. Haverty
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-06-24· cited 39×
• People v. Lopez
  California Court of Appeal· 1999-05-13· cited 36×