People v. Walkey’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 35 Cal. 4th 334 - People v. Smith (2005), 54 Cal. 4th 1234 - People v. Gonzales (2012)
30 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Michelson v. United States · People v. Green · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · 2 Cal. 3d 362 - People v. Terry
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“beatings were a misguided, irrational and totally unjustifiable attempt at discipline; but they were not in a criminal sense wilful, deliberate, or premeditated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Johnson“wilful, deliberate and premeditated intent to inflict extreme and prolonged pain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Johnson“primary purpose was to cause [the child] to suffer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Johnson
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.