West v. Soto’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Sparks v. Republic National Life Insurance (1982), 177 W. Va. 592 - Price v. Halstead (1987)
8 district · 48 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 Lynn v. Goodwin · Franco v. Vakares · Dorris v. Stevens' Administrator · Lampe v. Tyrell · Poutre v. Saunders
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * authority to act for all in respect to the control of the means or agencies employed to execute such common purpose."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.