State v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2024
12 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 Murray v. United States · Albemarle Electric Membership Corp. v. Alexander · Hamilton v. State · Herrick v. Morrill · Joseph Denunzio Fruit Co. v. Crane
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n legal contemplation 'to sign' means to attach a name or cause it to be attached by any of the known methods of impressing the name on paper with the intention of signing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“public documents may be authenticated by mechanical reproduction of the signature of the authorized officer when he intends to adopt the mechanical reproduction as his signature.”
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.