Watkins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
June 2004
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Daniels v. State · Baromich v. State · Kendrick v. State · Niece 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tlhe general authority [conferred by seetion (a) ] is limited to those occasions when a court is meting out two or more terms of imprisonment. If a court is contemporaneously imposing two or more sentences, it is granted the general statutory authority to order them to be served consecutive to one another. Section (a) does no more than this.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“precisely the type of illegal sentence in violation of express statutory authority contemplated for redress under a motion to correct an erroneous sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. State · Sinn v. State“sentencing error may be raised for the first time on appeal. Courts have a duty to correct an erroneously imposed sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Senn v. State · Strowmatt 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.