Commonwealth v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1984
16 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 163 Pa. Super. 279 - Commonwealth v. Young · 163 Pa. Super. 284 - Commonwealth v. Jodlowsky · 178 Pa. Super. 6 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Ranjo v. Ranjo
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nicholson J. Eastman, M.D., a professor of Johns Hopkins University, states in the 10th Edition of Williams Obstetrics (1950) ‘The average duration of human pregnancy, counting from the first day of the last menstrual period is about 280 days or 10 lunar months. Since the interval between the first day of menstruation and ovulation averages approximately 13 days, the mean duration of actual pregnancy, counting from the day of conception must be close to 267 days. ’ “He refers to a record of 14,079 eases in which only 42 had pregnancy extending more than 31 days after the expected date. This would mean that only 3 eases out of a thousand had pregnancies extending more than 298 days computed from conception to birth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.