Watson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Vick v. State (1999), Lopez v. State (2003)
25 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 Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Dixon · Alabama v. Smith · Garrett v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. State“[T]he Legislature intended to make possession of each individual substance within the same penalty group a separate and distinct offense. (Emphasis in original)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A defendant may be prosecuted in a single criminal action for all offenses arising out of the same criminal episode.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzales 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.