West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1978
11 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 Bell v. Blackwell · County of Harris v. Gerhart · Hubb Diggs Co. v. Bell · Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. McLean · Humphreys v. Roberson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * where improper argument has been indulged in, the adverse complaining party is entitled to a reversal, as a matter of law, if under all the circumstances, there is any reasonable doubt of its. harmful effect or unless it affirmatively appears no prejudice resulted.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frost v. State““* * * [1] ‘You are the taxpayers’, [2] ‘The taxpayers- will have to pay the bill’, [3] ‘You, as taxpayers, are directly interested in this suit’, and, [4] ‘When you go above $25 per acre, you will be taking the money out of your own pockets’ * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frost 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.