Watson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he law will excuse a person, when acting under coercion or compulsion, for committing most, if not all, crimes, except taking the life of an innocent person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Getsy
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1998-12-23· cited 654×
• State v. Woods
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1976-12-01· cited 225×
• State v. Getsy
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1998-12-22· cited 99×
• Ruffin v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2008-10-23· cited 58×
• Banyard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2010-09-16· cited 46×
• State v. Toscano
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1977-06-27· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Vasquez
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-07-17· cited 34×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-12-03· cited 30×
• State v. Mannering
  Washington Supreme Court· 2003-09-11· cited 28×
• State v. Dissicini
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1974-02-14· cited 13×
• Sanders v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-11-09· cited 12×
• Fuqua v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2006-03-07· cited 8×
• Torri L. Sanders v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-03-27
• Micah Ruffin v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-04-12
• Demarious Latwan Banyard v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2006-08-07
• Raheem Johnson a/k/a Raheem Shamard Johnson v. State of Mississippi
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2020-02-13