State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1980
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Hunt · State v. White
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inasmuch as defendant did not assign as error on appeal the failure of the trial judge to place the burden of proving the absence of heat of passion or the absence of self-defense on the state, . . . (citation omitted) he has waived his right now to complain about such errors. Hankerson v. North Carolina, 432 U.S. 233 , 244, n. 8, 97 S.Ct. 2339, 2345, 53 L.Ed.2d 306 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Stevenson
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.