Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2003
23 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Castaldi v. United States · Dewein v. State · Harris v. State · Needham 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . ,[T]he age and the intellectual strength or weakness of the defendant, the manner in which he is questioned, the presence or absence of threats of harm or inducements in the form of promises or favor (citations omitted), and the delay between the advice of constitutional rights required by Miranda and the giving of the confession, (citations omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. State · Bell 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.