Commonwealth v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Degro (2000), Commonwealth v. Gomes (2015)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 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 Francis v. Franklin · Victor v. Nebraska · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Anthony v. United States · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We presume that a jury follow all instructions given to it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“If after all is said and done there remains in -the minds of the jury any reasonable doubt as to the existence of fact or facts necessary to a conviction upon the particular charge, then it becomes the duty of the jury to resolve that doubt in favor of the defendant and to find him not guilty.”
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.