Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 1968 · most notably Parsons v. State (1886), Shields v. State (1897)
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Goodwin v. State · State v. Hoyt · Choice v. State · Wright v. State · Fahnestock 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence that the previous character of the appellant for peace and quietude was good would have been admissible, but the previous moral character of the appellant was not a proper subject of inquiry in a case like this.” (This case being one of homicide, as is the case at bar.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKnight
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.