State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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 Baehr v. Lewin · Kealoha v. County of Hawaii · People v. Tauer · Tsugawa v. Reinartz · In the Interest of Doe
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applicable law and to instruct the jury thereon, and the litigants are not permitted to attempt to persuade the jury that the law is other than the court finds it to be. State v. West, 95 Hawai#i 22, 26-27, 18 P.3d 884, 888-89 (2001) (emphasis added) (quoting Jones on Evidence § 2:2 (7th ed. 1992)). Thus, while a trial court is not required to instruct the jury on any and all law judicially noticed, it must instruct the jury on”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fredricksen v. Dyas“[a]s all law has become increasingly accessible and judges have tended to assume the duty to rule on the tenor of all law, the notion that [the process of treating law as fact and] part of judicial notice has become increasingly an anachronism. Evidence, after all, involves the proof of facts. How the law is fed into the judicial machine is more appropriately an aspect of the law pertaining to procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law within its jurisdiction; hence a court is required to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fredricksen v. Dyas
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.