West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Des Jardins v. State (1976), Poulin v. Zartman (1975)
37 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 McDonald v. Pless · Ruthenberg v. United States · United States v. Gottfried · National Mutual Insurance v. Tidewater Transfer Co. · Kramer v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the verdict should be set aside and a new trial ordered rests in the sound discretion of the trial judge, but generally the verdict should stand unless the evidence clearly establishes a serious violation of the juror’s duty and deprives a party of a fair trial.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the mental pressure and exhaustion experienced by [the testifying juror] [were] not shown to have been any greater than that experienced by the other jurors”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pralle v. Milwicz“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alvarado v. State
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.