Watts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that from the whole instruction to the jury \may\ was used in a mandatory manner and synonymous with the word \shall\
• “Where a law relates to a matter of procedure only, and no substantial right is taken away, it is not ex post facto.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

69 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Burton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-02-26· cited 106×
• Lawrence v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1972-09-11· cited 102×
• Nester v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1959-01-20· cited 86×
• Penley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-04-15· cited 79×
• Woods v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1968-04-03· cited 71×
• Meeks v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1968-03-01· cited 60×
• Shipman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1962-06-26· cited 59×
• Cobbs v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1975-12-23· cited 59×
• Kerlin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1970-12-22· cited 59×
• Miller v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1971-04-15· cited 59×
• McCoy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1960-11-15· cited 58×
• Austin v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1974-11-27· cited 55×
• Hall v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1976-05-10· cited 53×
• Loveless v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1960-05-17· cited 47×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1958-12-17· cited 45×
• Ramon v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-06-10· cited 41×
• Grandsinger v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1955-12-16· cited 38×
• Wahl v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1951-05-18· cited 37×
• State v. Mason
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1968-08-30· cited 36×
• Downer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-01-13· cited 35×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lisenba v. California
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-02· cited 1,400×
• Watts v. Indiana
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-27· cited 831×
• Commonwealth v. Gallo
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1931-04-09· cited 89×
• Stephenson v. Boody
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1894-10-10· cited 40×
• State v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1910-06-11· cited 39×
• Robinson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1882-11-15· cited 29×
• Borolos v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1924-04-09· cited 22×
• Nuzum v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1883-05-15· cited 9×