State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2014
14 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 State v. Fetters · State v. Drake · State v. Blyth · State v. Orosos · State v. Wallin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that Miss Berry made her statements in response to Six’s inquiry asking what was wrong does not necessarily rob them of their spontaneity. See State v. Smith, 195 N.W. 2d 673, 676 (Iowa 1972); Gibbs v. Wilmeth, 261 Iowa 1015, 1024 , 157 N.W. 2d 93, 98-99 (1968). The question was a most natural one under the circumstances. It was not calculated to elicit information which would otherwise have been withheld. It did not render the response inadmissible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wallace“She was still suffering from her recent harrowing experience. [A witness] testified `she was pretty well shook up.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leonard“Those guys tried to rape me and took my purse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Leonard
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.