Westfall v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2018
21 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 · Crist v. Bretz · Clewis v. State · Malik v. State · King 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that [, for purposes of article 28.10,] trial on the merits commences at the time that the jury is impaneled and sworn, i.e., at the same time that jeopardy attaches”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanchez v. State“For the time being, we do not presume that this `hypothetically correct jury charge' is applicable in bench trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wheaton v. State“in the light most favorable to the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris 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.