Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2005
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. White · Hagen v. State · State v. Hanson · State v. Harris
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to prevent the abuse of postconviction relief by criminal defendants who would substitute those proceedings for direct appeal and in order to preserve the integrity of the trial and direct appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pena 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.