State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

62 state decisions

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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Therefore, a prior deferred disposition is that which exists before the date of disposition of the current charges. This interpretation is consistent with the goal of the JJA: a court may grant a deferred disposition to juvenile offenders who have not yet had a chance to prove themselves worthy of a clean record. Although the statute prevents a court from granting a deferred disposition where the juvenile”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Watson

2. “but this definition offers but sparse legal insight here, where two charges were presented to the trial judge simultaneously. Webster's Third New International Dictionary 1804 (3d ed.1993). Although the majority is correct in noting that a child may receive only one deferred disposition, its application of the statute is flawed. Indeed, the majority relies on the plain meaning of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Watson

3. “A statute is ambiguous if it can be reasonably interpreted in more than one way, but it is not ambiguous simply because different interpretations are conceivable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Neilson Ex Rel. Crump v. Blanchette