State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Crespo (1998), State v. Hamilton (1994)
65 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 Ungar v. Sarafite · American Petrofina Co. v. Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union Local No. 4-23 · Kennedy v. Powell · State v. Leecan · State v. Vitale
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Verification of a photograph is a preliminary question of fact to be determined by the trial court.... Whether a photograph shows a situation with sufficient accuracy to render it admissible, is a preliminary question for the court .... [T]he trial court has wide discretion in admitting photographic evidence and its determination will stand unless there has been a clear abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the admissibility of evidence is a matter of state law and unless there is a resultant denial of fundamental fairness or the denial of a specific constitutional right, no constitutional issue is involved”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.