Watts v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 15607
Relies on Miller v. Alabama · Sutton v. United States · Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District · Commonwealth v. a Juvenile · Commonwealth v. Roucoulet
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.
“to protect minors, particularly children who are seventeen years of age, from certain well-documented harms, including ... an increased risk of recidivism, that arise when children are prosecuted as if they were adults,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if they are transferred to the Juvenile Court system before the system is able to absorb them and able to provide the attending services that they need.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“changes both the nature of the proceedings against, and dispositional options for”
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.