Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
January 2014
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hammons v. State · Collins v. Bair · Wooley v. State · Widener v. State · Morgan 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a criminal history comprised of misdemeanors that are unrelated to the present offense are not significant aggra-vators in the context of a sentencing hearing for criminal deviate conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · McCray v. State“when a patient places her mental or physical condition at issue in a lawsuit, she has impliedly waived the physician-patient privilege to that extent”
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.