West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), Hubbard v. State (1983)
27 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 Calicoat v. State · Wages v. State · Gerard v. Gill · Walters v. State · Goss v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who shall be an accessory to any felony, before the fact, shall be deemed and considered a principal, and shall be indicted and punished as such; and this whether the principal have been previously convicted or not.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Scales v. State · State v. Peoples“Aside from that, this case is controlled by the principle of law that where a defendant is convicted of manslaughter upon an instruction granted by the state to that effect and the evidence would have justified a conviction of murder, the instruction on manslaughter, even if not authorized by the evidence, does not constitute reversible error. [ Id. at 542 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hubbard v. State · Grace v. State“"* * * `Aiding and abetting involves some participation in the criminal act' and this may `be evidenced by some "word, act, or deed."' * * *." ( 233 Miss. at 733 , 103 So.2d at 439 )”
2 later decisions 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.