West v. Abney’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1987
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 Cities Service Oil Co. v. Kindt · Daniel v. Jones · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Perryman · Central Petroleum Co. v. Lewis · Braniff v. McPherren
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The principle is general that when a jury return an informal, insensible, or a repugnant verdict, or one that is.not responsive to the issues submitted or is in disregard of the instructions of the court, they may be. directed by the court to reconsider it and bring in a proper verdict, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Draper““Evidence reasonably tending to prove, either directly or indirectly or by permissive inference, essential facts, is sufficient to sustain [a] judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.