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← 357 N.C. 366 - State v. Watts

State v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

34 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Enmund v. Florida · Tison v. Arizona · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Nebraska v. Wyoming

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is well settled that constitutional matters that are not 'raised and passed upon' at trial will not be reviewed for the first time on appeal.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “to rely solely upon your recollection of the evidence in your deliberations”
    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.