State v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 563 So. 2d 449 - State v. King (1990), 797 So. 2d 75 - State v. Hurst (2000)
70 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 State v. Sepulvado · 448 So. 2d 645 - State v. Davis · 450 So. 2d 621 - State v. Jackson · 432 So. 2d 910 - State v. Easley · Moore v. Lindeman
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the defendant would commit further offenses if he received a suspended sentence and probation. The trial court stated that the defendant was in need of correctional treatment and concluded that only imprisonment could prevent the defendant from committing further crimes. Therefore, the trial court imposed maximum sentences for both offenses. However, the trial court ordered the sentences to run concurrently, rather than consecutively. In doing so, the trial court specifically stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Freeman
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.