Ernest Ray Watts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coffin v. United States · Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District · Portuondo Superintendent Fishkill Correctional Facility v. Agard · Commonwealth v. Young · Lansdowne 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the record is clear about the incident alleged as error; 2) the district court transgressed a clear and unequivocal rule of law; and 3) he was denied a substantial right resulting in material prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ladies and gentlemen, the State does have to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt, but it is not beyond all doubt. It is not an impossible burden. It is the same burden in every State in the nation, Federal Court, State Courts. We know people are convicted fairly frequently on this burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. [[Image here]] But the doubt has to be reasonable. It has to be based on what arose out of this trial. It can’t be a hunch it [sic]. It can’t be well a possibility. [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] series of harmless or non-prejudicial errors will only be cause for reversal where the accumulated effect constitutes prejudice and the conduct of the trial is other than fair and impartial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Haskell 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.