Ex Parte Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2008
11 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 395 So. 2d 150 - Harper v. State · Milam v. State · 40 Ala. App. 671 - Sledge v. State · 409 So. 2d 1003 - Segars v. State · 383 So. 2d 863 - Kilpatrick 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless otherwise provided by law, the venue of all public offenses is in the county in which the offense was committed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Unless some special venue statute applies [to the criminal charge], an offense may be prosecuted only in the county where the accused has committed the unlawful act on which the prosecution against him is based. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ivey v. State“absent some proof connecting [the charged person] with the theft or possession in that first county.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.