Westrup v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2024
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on York v. Commonwealth · Trimble v. Commonwealth
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person neglecting to discharge a duty required of him, either by law or contract, thereby causing the death of another, is guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Thus, if a parent ... neglects to supply food and clothing or medical attendance to a child ... whom he is under a legal obligation to maintain, and the child ... dies of the ne- gleet, he is guilty of involuntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Involuntary manslaughter is the killing of another person in doing some unlawful act not amounting to a felony, nor likely to endanger life, but without an intention to kill, or where one kills another while doing a lawful act in an unlawful manner.” Westrup v. Com., 123 Ky. 97 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rowe v. Commonwealth
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.