706 So. 2d 1044 - State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2013
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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · 387 So. 2d 1175 - State v. Steele · State v. Vaughn · 310 So. 2d 596 - City of Baton Rouge v. Jackson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the evidence required to support a finding of guilt of one crime would also have supported conviction of the other, the two are the same offense under a plea of double jeopardy, and a defendant can be placed in jeopardy for only one. The test depends on the evidence necessary for the conviction, not all the evidence introduced at trial ... The “same evidence test” is somewhat broader in concept than Blockburger, the central idea being that one should not be pun ished (or put in jeopardy) twice for the same course of conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1) Identical with or a different grade of the same offense for which the defendant was in jeopardy in the first trial, whether or not a responsive verdict could have been rendered in the first trial as to the charge in the second trial; or 2) Based on a part of a continuous offense for which offense the defendant was in jeopardy in the first trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mr. Watson then parked his vehicle near the street, and walked across the lot towards a pay phone, constantly scanning the lot. At this point, the officers stopped Mr. Watson for investigation. Mr. Watson was advised of the circumstances surrounding the stop, and he volunteered to cooperate.”
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.