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Watts v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1872

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
March 2009
most recently cited

16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2009

16 state decisions

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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.

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the principal totally and substantially departs from his instructions, as if, being solicited to burn a barn, he moreover commits a robbery while so doing, he stands single in the latter crime, and the other is not held responsible for it as accessory.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “in the ordinary course of things a probable consequence”
    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.