Westbrook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), California v. Ramos (1983)
82 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 Gregg v. Georgia · SCA Services, Inc. v. Morgan · Collins v. State · Caton v. State · Upton 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due to the nature of the defense we feel it was necessary that appellant have these records, if they exist, in order to fully prepare his defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. State · Davis v. State“(1) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution that at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct charged, he lacked capacity, as a result of mental disease or defect, to conform his conduct to the requirements of law or to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gruzen v. State“prejudicial error when a trial judge discussed the matter of possible parole with the jury, in response to the question of a juror.”
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.