Westry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably 11 Va. App. 535 - Rollston v. Commonwealth (1991), Epps v. Commonwealth (1975)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Spradlin v. Commonwealth · Strawderman v. Commonwealth · Martin v. Commonwealth · Timmons v. Commonwealth · Abdell v. Commonwealth
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is concert of action with the resulting crime one of its incidental probable consequences, then whether such crime was originally contemplated or not, all who participate in any way in bringing it about are equally answerable and bound by the acts of every other person connected with the consummation of such resulting crime. The question of whether the offense is the natural and probable result of the intended wrongful act is usually for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[wjhile depositions have been used in chancery proceedings since early times, their use as evidence in criminal cases, as in civil suits at law was unknown to the common law. The right to take depositions in other than equity cases can, therefore, be conferred by statute, which must be clear....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Singleton
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.