Watts v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 1974
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Burford v. Commonwealth · Cates v. Commonwealth · Seay v. Commonwealth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under a duty to certify the case to the court of record for proper criminal proceedings, in the absence of a finding that it would be in the public interest to dispose of the matter in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Cox
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.