Daniel Watson Jim Sandra Watson v. Robert D Beckel Seth R Orell Antonio Pino Christopher Cortez -’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
16 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Benton v. Adams (2002), Mantle v. N. Star Energy & Constr. LLC (2019)
16 district · 8 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · Goss v. Lopez · Parker v. Levy · Vacco v. Quill
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. .even if procedure was inadequate, 'the students would still be unable to show that they suffered any prejudice so as to establish a denial of due process. By admitting their guilt, the plaintiffs waived their right to a hearing.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The students' interest in 'unfair or mistaken exclusion from the educational process' must be balanced against the school's interest in 'discipline and order.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the complaint, as amended, ... would not survive a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.