Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Thomas v. State (2008), Brown v. State (2004)
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Boykin v. Alabama · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Patton v. United States · Chapman 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.
“When sitting as the finder of fact, the [juvenile] court is presumed to have separated admissible evidence from inadmissible evidence and considered only the former in reaching its judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mdp“will not disturb the presumption that the trial court considered only admissible evidence in reaching its judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Mdp
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.