West's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Nycal Corp. v. KPMG Peat Marwick LLP (1998), Selectmen of Topsfield v. State Racing Commission (1949)
2 district · 45 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 Sponatski's Case · Burns's Case · Sandler v. Silk · Commonwealth v. Mixer · Berdos v. Tremont & Suffolk Mills
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the employee is injured by reason of the serious and wilful misconduct of an employer ... the amounts of compensation hereinafter provided shall be doubled. ... The employment of any minor, known to be such, in violation of any provision of [Mass.Gen.L. ch. 149 § 60-74, 104] shall constitute serious and wilful misconduct under this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are bound to interpret a statute as it is written”
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.