Walden v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Bostick v. State (1962), Harris v. State (1960)
5 federal appellate · 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the crime of rape no intent is requisite other than that evidenced by the doing of the acts constituting the offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.