Watson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011
5 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 Luttrell v. Commonwealth · Whorton v. Commonwealth · Darnell v. Commonwealth
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a single course of conduct of a defendant may establish the commission of more than one offense, he may be prosecuted for each such offense. He may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense when: (a) One offense is included in the other as defined in subsection (2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the terroristic threat is included in the wanton endangerment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullikan v. Com.
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.