State v. . Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1962
14 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Thus, the words of the statute mentioned— ‘overloaded/ ‘injured/ ‘tortured/ and ‘tormented’— do not imply or describe the acts charged to have been done with certainty ; they each imply a variety of acts that may or may not constitute the offense or parts of it. The acts should be so specified and charged as to show that they meant what the statute intends by overdriving, injury, torture, and torment. The court must see that the offense is charged, and it and not the pleader must determine that the acts done constitute the offense denounced by the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patterson
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.