State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Passmore (2010), State v. Norman (2010)
114 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 Barker v. Wingo · Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the rationale underlying the timely-objection rule is judicial economy and 'bringing alleged errors to the attention of each court involved, so that actual error can be prevented or corrected at the first opportunity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamilton“That which may, in one setting, constitute a denial of fundamental fairness, shocking to the universal sense of justice, may, in other circumstances, and in the light of other considerations, fall short of such denial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Moore“may result in a manifest miscarriage of justice, may leave unsettled the question of the fundamental fairness of the trial or proceedings, or may compromise the integrity of the judicial process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Essig
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.