State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Burriss · State v. Owens · State v. Gourdine · State v. MOUZON · State v. McFadden
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.
“is the killing of any person with malice aforethought, either express or implied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reese · State v. Smith“The [circuit court] is to charge the jury on a lesser included offense if there is any evidence from which the jury could infer that the lesser, rather than the greater, offense was committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“has traditionally been considered a lesser included offense of the greater offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.