449 So. 2d 1321 - State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Jenkins (1984), Watson v. Louisiana (1985)
6 federal appellate · 138 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · New York v. Ferber · State v. Narcisse · Louisiana Resources Co. v. Stream · 406 So. 2d 1331 - State v. Edwards
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“another crime committed or alleged to have been committed by the defendant as to which evidence is not admissible.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“A police officer, in explaining his own actions, may refer to statements made to him by other persons involved in the case. Such statements are admitted not to prove the truth of the assertion, but to explain the sequence of events leading to the arrest of the defendant from the viewpoint of the investigating officer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he State cannot be robbed of the moral force of its case merely because the stipulation is offered.”
3 later decisions 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.