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← 243 Md. 413 - Westfall v. State

Westfall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1966

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
July 1996
most recently cited

2 district · 38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably Lodowski v. State (1986), 2 Md. App. 80 - Boone v. State (1967)

2 district · 38 state decisions

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · United States v. Continental Can Co.

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The law is perfectly clear that it is ‘impermissible to attack the credibility of a witness by asking him about his past record of juvenile offenses, directly, or indirectly.’ Indeed, any inquiry, ‘whether by record or by cross-exami nation, of determinations of prior juvenile delinquency is impermissible in ar.y adjudicatory hearing.’ ” (Citations omitted).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.