State v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), Lewis v. Jeffers (1990)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 150 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brady v. United States · Lockett v. Ohio · Malloy v. Hogan · Rideout v. United States
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a crime is committed in an especially cruel manner when the perpetrator inflicts mental anguish or physical abuse before the victim's death,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moeller · Olsen v. State“[m]ental anguish includes a victim's uncertainty as to his ultimate fate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moeller · Olsen v. State“the perpetrator 'relishe[d] the murder, evidencing debasement or perversion,' or 'show[ed] an indifference to the suffering of the victim and evidence[d] a sense of pleasure' in the killing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Arave v. Creech · State v. Moeller
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.