People v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson (1956), People v. Carmen (1951)
71 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 Commonwealth v. Drum · 54 Cal. App. 333 - People v. Peete · People v. Tom Woo · People v. Dole · People v. Fowler
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““His brazen effrontery in boldly representing himself as Wilfred Hey when he secured from the Bank of Italy the proceeds of the British war bonds clearly indicates an utter absence of that fear of detection which he must have felt did he not know that the body of the man he was impersonating lay rotting on the desert sands. In the light of these circumstances the determination of the jury is conclusive upon this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it must affirmatively appear to the satisfaction of this court ... that the accused may well have been substantially injured by the error of which he complains”
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.