King v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Turner v. State (2008), Davis v. State (2017)
26 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 United States v. Powell · Milam v. State · Bundren v. State · Kuck v. State · Chase 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot know and should not speculate why a jury acquitted on . . . [one] offense and convicted on . . . [another] offense. The reason could be an error by the jury in its consideration or it could be mistake, compromise, or lenity. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. State“there is . . . no speculation, and the policy explained in Powell and adopted in Milam, supra, . . . does not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. State“an appellate or a habeas corpus court's ruling”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner 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.