Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Espey v. State (1960), 370 So. 2d 1115 - Nix v. State (1979)
28 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 Cross v. State · Pilley v. State · Coats v. State · Burkett v. State · Jackson 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mistrial will not be granted on motion of defendant where the court has sustained his objections to alleged improper argument and excluded it from the jury's consideration, unless it clearly appears that the defendant's rights have been so prejudiced as to render a fair trial a matter of grave doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“' Jackson v. State, 33 Ala.App. 42 , 31 So.2d 514, 519 , certiorari denied 249 Ala. 348 , 31 So.2d 519 .”
2 later decisions 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.