Watts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2003
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 584 So. 2d 786 - Grubb v. State · 492 So. 2d 1281 - Watts v. State · 731 So. 2d 601 - Ivy v. State · 654 So. 2d 519 - Fuselier v. State · 700 So. 2d 631 - Jones 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.
“The motion under this chapter shall be filed as an original civil action in the trial court, except in cases in which the prisoner’s conviction and sentence have been appealed to the supreme court of Mississippi and there affirmed or the appeal dismissed. Where the conviction and sentence have been affirmed on appeal or the appeal has been dismissed, the motion under this chapter shall not be filed in the trial court until the motion shall have first been presented to a quorum of the justices of the supreme court of Mississippi, convened for said purpose either in term-time or in vacation, and an order granted allowing the filing of such motion in the trial court. The procedure governing applications to the supreme court for leave to file a motion under this chapter shall be as provided in section 99-39-27.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacy v. State
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.