West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably State v. Thomas (1954), Burgunder v. State of Arizona (1940)
46 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 People v. O'Bryan · People v. Fleming · People v. Lapara · 21 Cal. App. 63 - People v. Lawlor · State v. Crowe
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Just why county attorneys will, in the prosecution of criminal cases, insist upon getting into the record, as evidence, things that are clearly not evidence, especially in a case wherein the evidence of guilt of the defendant is overwhelming, it is very difficult to understand. Their position should be to see that neither the rights of the people nor the defendant are outraged, and they should be as unwilling to permit improper and irrelevant testimony against a defendant as to see one guilty of crime go unpunished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sorrell““By the statute he [defendant] is given an opportunity to testify, and if he accepts it he must submit to the same rigid cross-examination as other witnesses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hadley v. State
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.