State v. Westbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably State v. Harvill (1970), State v. Tinghitella (1971)
83 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 Pinkerton v. United States · Sealfon v. United States · Gavieres v. United States · United States v. William Rabinowich · 30 Cal. 2d 589 - People v. Greer
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An act or omission which is made punishable in different ways by different sections of the laws may be punished under either, but in no event under more than one. An acquittal or conviction and sentence under either one bars a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * The test to be applied is simple: Is the first offense one that cannot be committed without necessarily committing the second?” State v. Westbrook, 79 Ariz. 116, 119 , 285 P.2d 161 , 53 A.L.R.2d 619 (1954).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We need to determine, then, whether the two crimes charged in this case are based on the same act or omission, in other words, whether the two crimes have identical components.” 79 Ariz. at 118 , 285 P.2d at 162 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jorgenson
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.