State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Hennis (1988), State v. McCollum (1993)
96 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Livingston v. Texas
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Photographs are usually competent to be used by a witness to explain or illustrate anything that is competent for him to describe in words.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“‘Where the court has refused to stand aside a juror challenged for cause, and the party has then peremptorily challenged him, in order to get the benefit of his exception he must exhaust his remaining peremptory challenges, and then challenge another juror peremptorily to show his dissatisfaction with the jury, and except to the refusal of the court to allow it.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“If, upon motion of the defendant, the court determines that there exists in the county in which the prosecution is pending so great a prejudice against the defendant that he cannot obtain a fair and impartial trial, the court must either: (1) Transfer the proceeding to another county in the judicial district or to another county in an adjoining judicial district, or (2) Order a special venire under the terms of G.S. ISA-958.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Abbott · State v. Reeb
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.