In re Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably In re C.S. (2007), State v. Barker (Slip Opinion) (2016)
99 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · Gault · State v. Dehass · Richardson v. Marsh
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the age, mentality, and prior criminal experience of the accused; the length, intensity, and frequency of interrogation; the existence of physical deprivation or mistreatment; and the existence of threat or inducement.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he fact that a juvenile is subject to police interrogation does not change the nature of the constitutional rights afforded to him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“appreciated his rights and voluntarily waived them in the absence of an interested adult or parent”
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.