Walstrom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Catanio (2004), 595 So. 2d 840 - Morris v. State (1991)
25 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 Richardson v. Perales · 18 Cal. 3d 538 - People v. Zamora · Union Texas Petroleum v. Corporation Commission of Oklahoma · State Employment Security Department v. Hilton Hotels Corp. · Koza 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] crime is done in a secret manner, under NRS 171.095, when it is committed in a deliberately surreptitious manner that is intended to and does keep all but those committing the crime unaware that an offense has been committed. Therefore normally, if a crime of physical abuse, or a related crime, is committed against a victim who remains alive, it would not be committed in a secret manner under the statute. The victim is aware of the crime and has a responsibility to report it. However, given the inherently vulnerable nature of a child, we conclude that the crime of lewdness with a minor can be committed in a secret manner, even though a victim is involved. 18”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hubbard v. State · State v. Quinn“[Orimes against persons, by their very nature, cannot be concealee when it came to child sex crimes, "as it fails to take into account the vulnerability of children and apparently assigns to them full adult responsibility for immediately reporting crimes in which they are victims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as provided in NRS 171.095, an indictment for: (2) Any other felony than murder, theft, robbery, burglary, forgery, arson or sexual assault must be found, or an information or complaint filed, within 3 years after the commission of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Houtz v. State
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.