Ex Parte Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2018
20 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 Granviel v. State · Bruce v. Estelle · White v. State · McMahon v. State · Starvaggi 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the defendant's burden to establish that the conversation between a non-sequestered juror and another concerned the case at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner, Albert James“jury finding as to the feasibility of holding the retrospective competence hearing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner, Albert James“the trial court made the necessary determination”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner, Albert James
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.