West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1999
24 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 Case v. Kelly · Ferguson v. Starkey · 16 Ala. App. 533 - Oliver v. State · 16 Ala. App. 62 - Curlee 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 23, Gen.Acts 1935, p. 632, Code 1940, Tit. 8, § 21, expressly declares that the rules and regulations therein referred to, and mentioned in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, ‘shall have the force and effect of law’. That means very clearly the force and effect of a general law, a public statute. “ ‘Where an act at the time of its passage is declared * * * to be a public statute, such declaration is equivalent to enacting that it be judicially noticed, for though local in its application, such a clause will establish it as a public statute and place it within the circle of the judicial knowledge of the court’. 20 Amer. Jur. 60 . “The text is supported by the cited authority of Case v. Kelly, 133 U.S. 21 , 10 S.Ct. 216 , 33 L.Ed. 513 . See also 23 C.J. 1897 upon the question of judicial notice and illustrations to be found.””
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.