State v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2014
7 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 Mississippi Power Co. v. Goudy · Hart v. State · State Ex Rel. Carr v. the Cabana Terrace, Inc. · In RE CONDEMNATION BY OAK CENTER CREAMERY CO. v. Grobe · West. Line Consol. SD v. Greenville Mun. SD
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not deprive the court of jurisdiction to decide the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]t shall be the duty of the legislature to provide by law for the treatment and care of the insane....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.