West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Almanza v. State · Wright v. Wright · Bourjaily v. United States · Montgomery v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The so-called rule of optional completeness takes effect when other evidence has already been introduced but is incomplete and misleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. State“Here, Dodson's hearsay testimony was not harmful in light of D.M.'s detailed, factually specific testimony concerning the assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rosales v. State“Once an evidentiary door has been opened by one side, this rule serves to allow the other side to complete the picture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.