State v. Westbrooks’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Fair (2001), State v. Bishop (1997)
87 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Jenkins v. Anderson · Anderson v. Charles · Houchins v. KQED, Inc. · State v. Stager
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Allegations beyond the essential elements of the crime sought to be charged are irrelevant and may be treated as surplusage.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Prior statements of a witness which are inconsistent with his present testimony are not admissible as substantive evidence because of their hearsay nature. Even so, such prior inconsistent statements are admissible for the purpose of impeachment.... `... [I]f the former statement fails to mention a material circumstance presently testified to, which it would have been natural to mention in the prior statement, the prior statement is sufficiently inconsistent.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]ach jurisdiction may formulate its own rules of evidence to determine when prior silence is so inconsistent with present statements that impeachment by reference to such silence is probative.”
2 later decisions 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.