West v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2023
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Armintrout v. People · Demoulas v. Demoulas · Spahmer v. Gullette · In Re the Marriage of Allen · People v. Warner
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abrogate[d] the stolen property statute so that 'theft' in that provision does not include any theft in which an owner voluntarily relinquishes property to a thief under a transaction of purchase”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(bly relinquishing possession of the goods to the buyer, even when fraudulently induced to do so, the original seller cloaks the 'thief with the apparent authority to sell the goods”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person commits theft when he or she knowingly obtains, retains, or exercises control over anything of value of another without authorization or by threat or deception....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.