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← 121 SW3D 95 - West v. State

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.

  1. “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 passage
  2. “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 passage
  3. “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 passage

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.