Watson v. Godwin’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Tenneco Inc. v. Enterprise Products Co. (1996), Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. v. Commercial Standard Insurance Co. (1972)
34 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 Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. McBride · Kuper v. Schmidt · Whitson Company v. Bluff Creek Oil Company · Amarillo Oil Co. v. Calvert · City of Corpus Christi v. Gregg
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Should it appear from the affidavits of a party opposing the motion that he cannot for reasons stated present by affidavit facts essential to justify his opposition, the court may refuse the application for judgment or may order a continuance to permit affidavits to be obtained or depositions to be taken or discovery to be had or may make such other order as is just.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Rules relating to continuance merely prescribe certain requisites of the application. Accordingly, if an application for continuance does not conform to the provisions of a statute or rule regulating same the granting of relief is within the sound discretion of the court . If it is demonstrated that the rule has not been complied with it will be presumed, in the absence of a showing to the contrary, that the court has not abused its discretion.” Id. at pg. 430.”
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.