State v. Watchman’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Sutphin · State v. Cunningham · State v. Apodaca · State v. Salazar · State v. Benally
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant's innocence appears indisputable or if the question of his [or her] guilt is so doubtful that it would shock the conscience to permit the conviction to stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross
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.