125 Md. App. 48 - Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Robinson v. State (2009), 148 Md. App. 601 - Wilson v. State (2002)
28 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 Oliver · Waller v. Georgia · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Gregory v. United States · Dennis v. Dennis
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Sixth Amendment does not require a court to forfeit its legitimate and substantial interest in maintaining securi ty and order in the courtroom. To the contrary, prophylactic measures, including closure, may be warranted under some circumstances, in order to maintain order, to preserve the dignity of the court, and to meet the State’s interests in safeguarding witnesses and protecting confidentiality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is incumbent upon the trial judge to make more than a general finding that all children suffer trauma when testifying or, as in this case, not to encroach upon the defendant’s right of confrontation by clearing the couxtroom of all of the defendant’s family members without conducting an examination to ascertain the accuracy or validity of the State’s proffer. We hold that, in the absence of such evidence, we cannot determine from this record whether the trial judge’s order was narrowly tailored to the exigencies of the case at hand and, as a consequence thereof, the court abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.