Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Brem v. State (1978), Rubio v. State (1980)
30 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 Reynolds v. State · Baldwin v. State · Clay v. State · Posey v. State · Victory v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hen the terms `force' and `threats' were used in the indictment, the appellant was given adequate notice of the offense with which he was charged....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Childs v. State · Sifford v. State““Words used in a statute to define an offense need not be strictly pursued in the indictment; it is sufficient to use other words conveying the same meaning, or which include the sense of the statutory words.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zapalac v. State · Church v. State““... [T]he charge of the court failed to instruct the jury as to the character and degree of force necessary to be used in order to constitute rape; that is, that, before they could convict defendant of the intent or attempt to rape, they must believe that he intended to use such force as might reasonably be supposed sufficient to overcome resistance, taking into consideration the relative strength of the parties and other circumstances of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Delgado 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.