State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably American Continental Ins. Co. v. Steen (2004), State v. Weber (2006)
146 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 Cockle v. Dept. of Labor and Industries · Nagy v. United States · In re Galloway · Davis v. Department of Licensing · State v. Keller
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if we believe the legislature intended something else but did not adequately express it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`an ambiguity by imagining a variety of alternative interpretations.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“resort to principles of statutory construction, legislative history, and relevant case law to assist in [interpretation].”
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.