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State v. West’s Empirical Analysis

1900

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
June 1982
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1982

15 state decisions

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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 State v. Duestrow · State v. Van Wye · State v. Yerger · Saunders v. People · State v. Harlow

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““3. The court instructs the jury that drunkenness, in any degree, can not justify, excuse or mitigate the commission of a crime, and if the jury believe from the evidence that the defendant did, with one Eli J. Stubblefield, stop, detain and arrest the progress of the Lexington branch train on the Missouri Pacific railroad as described and defined in instruction number one, on behalf of the State, with intent to commit robbery thereon, they should find the defendant, James L. West, guilty; and the fact that defendant may have been drunk to any degree at the time can not be taken into consideration by the jury in making up their verdict. “4. The court instructs the jury that in making up their verdict, they will entirely disregard all the testimony with reference to the defendant being drunk, and that drunkenness can not be pleaded in excuse, mitigation or defense of any crime.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Brown

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.