State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
October 1999
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Blakeney · State v. D'AMICO · Troy Conference Academy v. Town of Poultney · State v. Lynch · State v. Labonte
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is clear that the statutes cannot logically stand together.... [Viewed together] we would be led to the inescapable conclusion that, in the context of the same criminal act, the less culpable the state of mind possessed by a defendant, the greater his crime, and vice versa.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re PM
How this case has been treated — in progress
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