Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

cited by 84 later decisions

states following

May 2014

most recently cited

84 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 585 So. 2d 97 - Bankhead v. State (1990), 808 So. 2d 1148 - Taylor v. State (2000)

84 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 Thompson v. United States · 29 Ala. App. 349 - Wilkins v. State · Day v. State · 378 So. 2d 1173 - Turner v. State · Aaron v. State

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

“[h]e may argue every legitimate inference from the evidence and may examine, collate, sift, and treat the evidence in his own way.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Smith v. State · Henderson v. State
“Where the record is silent on appeal, it will be presumed that what ought to have been done was not only done, but rightly done.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Magwood v. State · Johnson v. State
“"While it is true that evidence of separate crimes is inadmissible where the only probative function of such evidence is to show bad character, or an inclination or propensity to commit the type of crime for which an accused is being tried, if the accused's commission of another crime or misdeed is an element of guilt, or otherwise tends to prove his guilt, then proof of such other crimes is admissible. Sparks v. State , 376 So.2d 834 (Ala.Cr.App. 1979); C. Gamble, McElroy's Alabama Evidence § 69.01 (1) (3rd ed. 1977)."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 472 So. 2d 650 - Arthur v. State · 431 So. 2d 1350 - Cheatham v. State

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.