Watson v. Claughton’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 85 So. 2d 852 - Ervin v. Collins (1956), Wichita County v. Robinson (1955)
4 district · 30 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 Sheldon v. Powell · State ex rel. Lamb v. Cunningham · Holland v. Flinn · Parr v. City of Seattle · 3 Smith & H. 595 - Cummings v. Shipp
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is evident that the intent and purpose of this Section .... was to provide an avenue for the interests of the State to be represented contingent (1) upon the Attorney General’s concluding that the State’s interests should be represented in such proceedings and (2) upon the Attorney General’s making a showing before the Court sufficient to warrant the Chancellor, in the exercise of sound discretion, in making an order permitting it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When declaratory relief is sought, all persons may be made parties who have or claim any interest which would be affected by the declaration. No declaration shall prejudice the rights of persons not parties to the proceedings. In any proceeding concerning the validity of a county or municipal charter, ordinance or franchise, such county or municipality shall be made a party and shall be entitled to be heard. If the statute, charter, ordinance, or franchise is alleged to be unconstitutional, the Attorney General or the state attorney of the judicial circuit in which the action is pending shall be served with a copy of the complaint and be entitled to be heard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There is no statutory provision governing the matters which the Attorney General should present, nor is there a stated standard to guide the Chancellor in passing upon the matters which the Attorney General might present; both are left open, to be governed by the facts and circumstances and for the exercise of sound discretion in the discharge of their respective duties and functions of office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tobin v. Pursel
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.