Watts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1996
13 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 McGautha v. California · Schaumberg v. State · People v. Pike · Cody v. State · People v. McGautha
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has previously held that there is a distinction between voluntary statements and statements adduced from interrogation. In the case of Lung v. State, Okl.Cr., 420 P.2d 158 , we stated in the Fifth paragraph of the Syllabus: “Volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the Fifth Amendment, nor their admissibility affected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. State““. . . Whenever it becomes relevant to describe a person, place or thing, and photographs and pictures are shown to be a faithful reproduction of whatever they purport to reproduce, they are admissible for the purpose of assisting the court or jury in understanding the situation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. State““ . . . This Court has consistently held that the granting or denial of a continuance in a criminal case is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed on appeal unless there has been a clear abuse of that discretion. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Batie v. State
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.