State v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1971
9 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 In Re Lee · Story v. Rives · People v. Joyce · In re Conditional Discharge of Convicts · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Carmelo v. Smith
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever has been previously twice convicted of crime, sentenced and committed to prison, in this or any other state, or once in this and once at least in another state, for terms of not less than three years each, shall, upon conviction of a felony committed in this state, * * * be deemed to be an habitual criminal,'and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than fifteen years; * * * ft”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Russum
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.