State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 31 state decisions

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.

1. ““The general rule is that flight after the commission of a crime is admissible regardless of the time or stage in the proceedings when the flight occurs. It is not necessary that the flight occur immediately after the perpetration of the crime. It may occur before filing formal charges, before arrest, after indictment, or after arrest.” State v. Walker, 226 Kan. 20, 22 , 595 P.2d 1098 (1979).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Bowman

2. ““Evidence of flight may be admissible to establish the consciousness of guilt, the commission of the acts charged, and the intent and purpose for which those acts were committed. [Citation omitted.] Even where other evidence may weaken this inference of guilt, the objection to such evidence goes to the weight rather than the admissibility. [Citation omitted.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Griffin

3. ““Actual knowledge by a defendant that he is being sought for the crime in question is not a prerequisite to the admission of evidence of flight but merely goes to the weight to be given such evidence by the trier of the facts.” (Syl. ¶ 4.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Anderson