Ex Parte Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 10th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Texas Department of Public Safety v. Wiggins · State v. Sink · Texas Commission On Law Enforcement Officer Standards & Education v. Watlington · Smith v. Millsap · Cyrus 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [if] ... an indictment or information charging him with commission of a felony was presented, it has been dismissed and the court finds that it was dismissed because the presentment had been made because of mistake, false information, or other similar reason indicating absence of probable cause at the time of the dismissal to believe the person committed the offense or because it was void;”
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.