In Re West’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1979
10 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 Blair v. United States · Blackmer v. United States · State v. Young · Thompson v. Farmers Exchange Bank · 232 Mo. App. 796 - Ex Parte Arvin v. Williams
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“West, as a lawyer, must know this well established rule. His failure to obey our subpoena was highly improper, even more so because he is an officer of this court in his capacity as lawyer. The obligation upon a lawyer to respect the process of the court is certainly greater than that of a layman. Even a layman is under the strongest public duty, whenever he is properly summoned, to aid as a witness in the administration of justice. Blair v. United States, 250 U.S. 273 , 39 S.Ct. 468 , 63 L.Ed. 979 . Furthermore, West violated his professional obligation of fairness to this court. Id. at 71.”
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.