Watkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2011
19 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Giglio v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Hines 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process requires that evidence of any understanding or agreement, informal or formal, as to future prosecution of a witness on whose testimony the State’s case almost entirely depends be disclosed by the prosecutor and be made known to the jury assessing the credibility of the witness. [Cits.] A new trial is in order where evidence affecting the credibility of a witness whose reliability may be determinative of the guilt or innocence of the defendant existed before trial and was not disclosed. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beam v. State“The Chandler procedure sought to avoid a `battle by surprise' by providing the State with `reasonable notice' of the defendant's intent to introduce specified evidence of a victim's violent acts against third parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.