Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1994
3 federal appellate · 16 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 Bell v. State · Cæsar v. State · Kelley v. State · Foohs v. Bilby · Boynton v. Chicago Mill & Lumber Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The majority say that ‘what the lawmakers intended by this statute was to allow bail in all cases except where capital punishment was imposed by the judgment appealed from.’ Possibly so, but that is not the language of the statute. The statute is that bail shall be permitted ‘in all cases except in appeals from a conviction of a capital offense.’ So that the question properly stated is, not whether a capital sentence has been imposed, but whether there has been a conviction of a capital offense, and as thus stated the question, it would seem, is much simplified. There is no right of bail unless the statute gives it, . . . “ . . . That murder in the first degree is a capital offense is a proposition which will not be questioned. Appellant has been convicted of that offense. It is true the death sentence was not imposed but it could have been imposed by the jury. ... So that, while a jury may or may not assess the death punishment upon a conviction of murder in the first degree, that crime remains a capital one, because death is still a punishment fixed by law for its commission.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Berry““What the lawmakers intended by this statute was to allow bail in all cases except where capital punishment was imposed by the judgment appealed from. The statute deals solely with the question of appeals and measures the right of appellant to bail according to the severity of the punishment imposed under the judgment of conviction, and not by the gravity of the original charge in the indictment.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Berry
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.