People v. Watson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing a “divergence in judicial views on the matter”
• recognizing a \divergence in judicial views on the matter\
• finding legally sufficient claim for leaving seven year old alone for two and one-half hours unharmed, but noting that fact-finders may choose not to convict on such facts
• denying a motion to dismiss where a 7-year-old child was left alone for 2½ hours by a defendant entrusted with his care in a locked apartment in the Bronx where “a wide range of dangers” could befall the scared child
• seven‐year‐old child home alone awake for two‐and‐a‐half hours
• seven-year-old child home alone awake for two-and-a-half hours

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Vaughan
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 2003-01-24· cited 89×
• Matthews v. Barr
  Second Circuit· 2019-06-18· cited 28×
• Callahan v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2015-03-13· cited 11×
• Guzman v. Holder
  Second Circuit· 2009-07-09· cited 8×
• People v. Cruz
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2005-11-22· cited 3×
• People v. Ambers
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2007-08-02· cited 3×
• People v. Afia
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2007-09-26· cited 2×
• People v. Cardona
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2013-10-21· cited 2×
• People v. Allen
  New York Supreme Court· 2004-11-09· cited 1×
• People v. Morales
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2012-02-27· cited 1×
• People v. Sanchez
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 2014-06-20

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Case
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-06-16· cited 1,186×
• People v. Dumas
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-07-10· cited 931×
• People v. Mendoza
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-11-22· cited 425×
• People v. Lomax
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-05-29· cited 243×
• People v. Clayton
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1973-04-02· cited 235×
• People v. Rickert
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-02-15· cited 115×
• People v. Green
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-11-04· cited 63×
• People v. Wong
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-07-08· cited 59×
• People v. Carroll
  New York Court of Appeals· 1999-07-06· cited 51×
• People v. Belkota
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1975-12-17· cited 41×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1993-07-08· cited 29×
• People v. Toledo
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1991-11-15· cited 28×
• People v. Lilly
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1979-12-14· cited 27×
• People v. Schlessel
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-08-27· cited 24×
• People v. David
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1998-09-17· cited 20×
• People v. Litman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-01-12· cited 18×
• People v. Vidal
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1992-02-11· cited 18×
• People v. Fields
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-01-07· cited 18×
• People v. Cenat
  Criminal Court of the City of New York· 1997-12-01· cited 17×
• People v. Myers
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-02-24· cited 16×