Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Parren v. State (1987), Trusty v. State (1987)
47 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 Faretta v. California · Massiah v. United States · Brewer v. Williams · Estelle v. Williams · Balistrieri v. United States
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As Chief Judge Brune observed for the Court in McDowell v. State, 231 Md. 205, 211 , 189 A.2d 611 (1963), ‘The credibility of witnesses is primarily for the determination of the trier of facts. McKenzie v. State, 230 Md. 513, 514 , 187 A.2d 885 [(1963)].’ Accord, Cunningham v. State, 247 Md. 404, 417 , 231 A.2d 501 (1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 908 [, 88 S.Ct. 832 , 19 L.Ed.2d 877 ] (1968). Under Rule 886 'the judgment of the lower court will not be set aside on the evidence unless clearly erroneous____’ ” 282 Md. at 78 , 382 A.2d at 577 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCoy v. State · Simkus 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.