Watson v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith (1962), Birmingham Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Blackwell (1930)
5 federal appellate · 64 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 Southern Railway Co. v. Bush · Jordan v. State · McCurry v. Hooper · Long v. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad · Green 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden and obligation to subsequently remove, to wholly neutralize, the prejudicial effect wrought by the admission, over the adversary’s seasonable and apt objection, of such illegal matter is upon the party inducing the admission of such illegal matter as evidence in the cause.””
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.