Watson v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 1093 · 1989
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Mason (1990), 117 Wash. 2d 175 - In the Matter of Personal Restraint of Powell (2004)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Carnegie v. United States · Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Miller v. Florida
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must accept the meaning ... of state laws as determined by the state's highest court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]wo critical elements must be present for a criminal or penal law to be ex post facto: it must be retrospective, that is, it must apply to events occurring before its enactment, and it must disadvantage the offender affected by it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]entral to the ex post facto prohibition is a concern for 'the lack of fair notice and governmental restraint when the legislature increases punishment beyond what was prescribed when the crime was consummated.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.