State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2018
5 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 Rideout v. United States · Idaho ex rel. Evans v. Oregon · First Investment Annuity Co. of America v. Miller · State v. Wood · State v. Franco
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assumed control over the camper shell by removing it from the place where they found it and this taking, inconsistent with the owner's rights, was an appropriation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Whittaker
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.