State v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It must be emphasized that this provision does not require a warning to the defendant that his present conviction may be taken into account if, at a later date, he is convicted of other offenses and then dealt with as a repeater under multiple offender laws. Likewise, the judge is not required to speculate concerning the possible future application of the multiple offender laws of other jurisdictions because of the present conviction. Rather, this part of the standard applies only when it is possible, assuming past convictions, that the conviction following defendant’s present plea could result in the prompt imposition of additional punishment by this jurisdiction . . . .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Warner · Watts v. Brewer

2. ““in Wessling v. Bennett, 290 F.Supp. 511, 517 , the district court for the Northern District of Iowa, Central Division, said: ‘A state does not have to give notice in advance of trial on the primary charge of the intention to invoke a recidivist statute ‘even where the former conviction is known.’ Graham v. State of West Virginia, supra, 224 U.S. [616] at p. 629, 32 S.Ct. [583] at p. 588, [ 56 L.Ed. 917 ] . . . .’ On appeal the case was affirmed, Wessling v. Bennett, 410 F.2d 205 (8 Cir.), the court holding defendant had no federal constitutional right to be informed of the habitual criminal charges prior to his conviction on the primary charge.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watts v. Brewer