West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
3
states following
June 1988
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Martinez v. State · Ward v. State · Fields v. State · Cazares v. State · Fisher 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even where the pre-trial identification procedure was impermissibly suggestive, the in-court testimony of the identification witness would still be admissible as long as the record clearly reveals that the witness’ prior observation of the accused was sufficient to serve as an independent origin for the in-court identification.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Komurke 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.