State v. Wright

How courts have described this case

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

• “The old law governs eases arising before an amended statute takes effect, unless otherwise ordered.” (citations omitted)
• “In criminal cases, to determine whether a change in the law applies to a defendant, we generally have applied the law in existence on the date of the offense, regardless of its procedural or substantive nature.”
• “In criminal cases, to determine whether a change in the law applies to a defendant, we generally have applied the law in existence on the date of the offense, regardless of its procedural or substantive nature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Easton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-12-07· cited 60×
• State v. Etchell
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1962-10-16· cited 19×
• State Ex Rel. Arbogast v. Mohn
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1979-12-04· cited 17×
• State Ex Rel. Cain v. Skeen
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1953-02-10· cited 14×
• SER Ralph A. Lorenzetti, Jr., Pros. Attorney v. Hon. David H. Sanders, Judge
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-05-20· cited 7×
• State v. Cline
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1999-12-03· cited 2×
• State of West Virginia v. David M.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-11-23

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Mines
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1893-11-04· cited 77×
• Sutton v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1893-04-03· cited 30×
• State v. Abbott
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1875-03-04· cited 28×
• State v. Richards
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1889-03-07· cited 20×
• Schramm v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1906-02-21· cited 11×