Ex Parte Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Olivo v. State (1996), Fairfield v. State (1981)
33 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 Ex Parte Young · Etchieson v. State · Williams v. State · Ex Parte Shields · Mayes 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[H]abeas corpus will lie only to review jurisdictional defects or denials of fundamental or constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““Venue is distinct from jurisdiction. The latter concerns the power of the court to hear and determine the case. Venue means the place where a case may be tried. It is apparent ... that, strictly as a matter of jurisdiction, a district court may try any case in which the offense takes place within the State. Of course in a given case venue may not be proper under the provisions of Chapter 13 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The failure to comply with those provisions, however, does not deprive the district court of jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Franklin 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.