State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably State v. Stoddard (1966), State v. Caryl (1975)
25 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 State v. Bosch · State v. Allison · State v. Espelin · Girson v. United States · State v. Sawyer
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining the effect of given instructions, all instructions must be considered as a whole and if they fairly tender the case to the jury, the fact that one or more instructions, standing alone, is not as full or as accurate as it might have been is not reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Reiner“for the purpose of determining whether or not the jury was properly instructed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lundblade
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.