Ex Parte Watt’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Application of Heintz (1959), State Ex Rel. Smith v. Jameson (1963)
36 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 James Graham v. State of West Virginia · The People v. Atkinson · In re Taylor · State v. Demarsche · State Ex Rel. Smith v. Jameson
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.
“as against an unwilling defendant, a valid sentence cannot be increased in severity after he has commenced the serving thereof[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ross · State v. Puthoff“`If a final adjudication upon a habeas corpus [application] is not to be deemed res judicata, the consequences will be lamentable. This favored writ will become an engine of oppression, instead of [a] writ of liberty.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cochrun v. Solem
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.