People v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2019
12 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 Bell v. Wolfish · United States v. Halper · United States v. Dixon · Simuel v. United States · United States v. Newby
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he specific discipline imposed hereloss of good time credit, transfer, and segregationwas not so grossly disproportionate to the remedial goal of maintaining prison order and discipline so as to render the sanction `punishment' for double jeopardy purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Hernandez“[t]he purpose of a prison disciplinary proceeding is not primarily to punish, but to determine whether prison rules are broken and to maintain institutional order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Hernandez
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.