West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014 · most notably Dowthitt v. State (1996), West v. Texas (1987)
34 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 Terry v. Ohio · Beck v. State of Ohio · Michigan v. Mosley · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley · Scott v. Florida
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.
“[W]hen, as in the instant case, officers who reasonably believe that further investigation of an offense may be necessary in order to justify the issuance of a warrant; and where those officers undertake that investigation lawfully and without impinging upon reasonable expectations of privacy, and where that investigation leads to the receipt of information which in combination with their other information constitutes probable cause to arrest the suspect, but that information is obtained in the presence of the suspect under circumstances which would lead the officers reasonably to believe that the suspect would take flight if given the opportunity to do so, the officers are authorized by Art. 14 to arrest the suspect without first procuring a warrant. 720 S.W.2d at 518 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where it is shown by satisfactory proof to a peace officer, upon the representation of a credible person, that a felony has been committed, and that the offender is about to escape, so that there is no time to procure a warrant, such peace officer may, without warrant, pursue and arrest the accused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Oliver v. State · Hilla v. State“We decline the invitation to view with the same suspicion usually reserved for anonymous police informants with an unproven record of reliability information given by citizens who report a crime then freely share what information they have with police without withholding their own names.”); see also State v. Wester, 109 S.W.3d 824, 826-27 (Tex.App.-Dallas 2003, no pet.) (distinguishing a statement from a named informant under arrest on suspicion of drug offense from an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.