Watson v. Briscoe’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 650 · 1977
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Hamlin v. Warren (1981), Richardson v. Fleming (1981)
17 federal appellate ·
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Fulford v. Klein · Meadows v. Evans
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dealt with matters affecting the fact or length of Watson's confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gwin v. Snow
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.