Palka v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2020
21 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 Jarrolt v. Moberly · McGovern v. Mitchell · Simmons v. Fenton · Heywood v. State · Town of Shelburn v. Eldridge
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“power to grant reprieves after conviction, in all cases except those of impeachment, until the end of the next session of the general assembly, and no longer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Patel
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.