State v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Vitale · Swafford v. State · State v. Bernal · State v. DeGraff · State v. Alvarez-Lopez
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [L]egislature's provision of separate punishment for receiving a stolen firearm as a recognition that the dangers to public safety are heightened when a firearm is kept by a person who has obtained its possession illegally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cummings
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.