Watts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Hillard v. State (1979), Ball v. State (1997)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 57 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 Bain Jr · Adams v. Henderson · Berry v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co. · Nicholson v. State · Green 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would be possibly better for him if he would make a clean statement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCleary 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.