Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1970
6 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 City of San Antonio v. Hamilton · Adams v. State · Bell v. State · Wells Fargo & Co. v. W. B. Baker Lumber Co. · Hankins v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that one’s reason is temporarily dethroned by anger, jealousy, or any other passion, or the fact that one has become suddenly depraved to such an extent that his conscience ceases to control or influence his action is not a defense to a criminal charge. In other words, what is commonly known as emotional or moral insanity, is not a defense under the law of this state for one charged with crime.” (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State
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.