Watson v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.2d 297 · 1966
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 7 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Galtieri v. Wainwright (1978), Johnson v. State (1982)
32 federal appellate · 7 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Fay v. Noia · Silva v. Cox · Burns v. Crouse · Watson v. People
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant concedes that he has found no cases directly holding that the appointment of experts is a constitutional requisite; nor has our search revealed any such cases. * * * ‘Fundamental fairness’ is the test of due process, Silva v. Cox, 10th Cir., 351 F.2d 61 , and we see nothing so unfair here as to raise a federal constitutional issue. Watson v. Patterson, 358 F.2d 297, 298 (10th Cir. 1966).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.