369 So. 2d 1262 - Watters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2011
24 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Patterson v. New York · Davis v. United States · Fikes v. State of Alabama · Pope v. Nebraska
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`inconclusive facts and circumstances tending prima facie to show the corpus delicti may be aided by the admissions or confession of the accused so as to satisfy the jury beyond a reasonable doubt, and so to support a conviction, although such facts and circumstances, standing alone, would not thus satisfy the jury of the existence of the corpus delicti.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State · Lockett v. State“"In Alabama, by statute, all persons over fourteen years of age are presumed to be responsible for their acts. Section 15-16-2 , Code of Alabama 1975. This presumption is not contrary to due process *Page 581 under the Fourteenth Amendment. Hutchens v. State , 45 Ala. App. 507 , 232 So.2d 687 (1970); Patterson v. New York , 432 U.S. 197 , 97 S.Ct. 2319 , 53 L.Ed.2d 281 (1977). The statute is constitutional and does not invade 'any constitutional right of the defendant in imposing upon him the burden of proving the plea of insanity'. Martin v. State , 119 Ala. 1 , 25 So. 255 (1898)."”
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.