Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Andrews v. State (1943), United States v. Bergamo (1946)
5 federal appellate · 32 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Betts v. Brady · Eilenbecker v. District Court of Plymouth County · Gaines v. State of Washington · Wilcoxon v. Aldredge
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither zeal to bring to proper punishment nor wholesome desire to apprehend one guilty of so violent and outrageous a crime as that charged in the present case must be allowed to break down this guaranty, given by all States in the Union save one, and by the Federal constitution as well, and as given by Georgia in 17-98. See Betts v. Brady, 316 U. S. 455 (62 Sup. Ct. 1252, 86 L. ed. 1116, and the historical discussion there given. The very fact that society becomes so outraged at such a crime makes it all the more necessary that this be ‘strictly guarded and preserved’ (Martin v. State, supra), and not impinged upon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Duncan
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.