Westley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007
6 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Jackson v. Denno · Brewer v. Williams · Enmund v. Florida · Almanza 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we note that a robber has no right of self-defense against his victim. This is especially true when the victim is justified in acting to recover his property, prevent the offense or save another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Callins v. Collins“It would be ludicrous to consider the victim's justified actions as provocation for the appellant's illegal act”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eizember 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.