Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably Neeley v. State (1978), Schellert v. State (1978)
43 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 Dube 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`It is important for all segments of our society to believe that our court systems dispense justice. This includes the criminals themselves as well as the law abiding citizens ...'" Id., quoting Dube v. State, (1971) 257 Ind. 398, 407 , 275 N.E.2d 7, 11 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"While it is true, and should remain so, that the trial judge is not bound by any promises or recommendations made by law enforcement officers, he should nevertheless make every effort to ascertain whether or not such promises have, in fact, been made, and when it is learned that such promises have been made and the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion determines that notwithstanding such promises he will not order a suspended sentence, the person charged should then be permitted to withdraw a plea of guilty and enter a plea of not guilty. This Court has thoroughly covered the reasons for this in Dube v. State, supra."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The facts now before us differ substantially from those in Dube and Watson. In open court Emerson executed and tendered a written motion to withdraw his previously entered plea of not guilty and enter a plea of guilty. That motion disclosed the existence of the plea bargain and that the prosecuting attorney had agreed to recommend sentencing under the minors sentencing statute. The motion also contained the following: '(7) I understand that even though the prosecuting attorney may have agreed to make a recommendation as to my sentence the Court is not a party to that agreement and is not required to follow that recommendation; that the sentence imposed by the Court may be greater than, the same as, or less than the sentence recommended by the prosecutor. I understand also that if I plead GUILTY my punishment could be the same as, greater than or less than if I had pleaded NOT GUILTY, had stood trial and been convicted by a Court or Jury.!"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis 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.