Watts v. the State’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hughes v. State · Williams v. State · Jones v. State · State v. Able · 240 Ga. App. 783 - Migliore 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At a hearing on a motion to suppress, the trial judge sits as the trier of fact. On appeal from the grant or denial of such a motion, therefore, this Court must construe the evidence most favorably to uphold the findings and judgment of the trial court, and that court's findings as to disputed facts and credibility must be adopted unless clearly erroneous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“On a motion to suppress, the State bears the burden of proving that the search at issue did not violate the Fourth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. STROUD v. the 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.