Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably LP v. Natrona County Department of Public Assistance & Social Services (1984), 1 Tenn. Crim. App. 1 - Webster v. State (1967)
26 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 State v. Bowman · Sykes v. State · Mendolia v. State · State v. Monds · State v. . Hargrave
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.
“[t]here is ‘carnal knowledge’ or ‘sexual penetration’ in a legal sense if there is the slightest penetration of the sexual organ of the female by the sexual organ of the male. It is not necessary that the vagina be entered or that the hymen be ruptured; the entering of the vulva or labia is sufficient.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The irregularity, if any, " (emphasis supplied) did not appear on the face of the record. The Court, in that case, did not hold that a defendant on a plea in abatement could try an issue as to the character and legal admissibility of the testimony on which the Grand Jury acted. In 31 A.L.R., 1479 , it is stated: "In the majority of jurisdictions the rule obtains that the court will not inquire into the legality or sufficiency of the evidence on which an indictment is based, even if it is averred that the indictment was found without any legal evidence being produced before the grand jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. State““It seems too that for another reason this assignment should be overruled. The minutes of the court show that at the time the motion to quash was made, a plea of not guilty had already been entered. Very recently we held, Mendolia v. State, 192 Tenn. 656, 667 , 241 S.W.2d 606, 611 , that: “ Tt is settled law in this State that a plea in abatement may not be filed in any criminal case while the plea of the general issue of “not guilty” is in effect.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.