State v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 271 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Prioleau (1995), State v. Brown (1995)
3 federal appellate · 271 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 Blockburger v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · State v. Golding · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Q. Based on all of [your] training and experience, you observed what was on that table, how it was packaged, what was open, what was closed. Did you, based on all that training and experience, come to a conclusion as what had transpired to get those to the way they were? “A. The white powder in the large white plastic bag was in the process of being packaged for distribution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright“presume[d] that his silence in the face of a similar midtrial motion by [a codefendant], specifically joined by [a second codefendant], was for tactical or other reasons he deemed to be valid”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Pinkerton liability is now a recognized part of federal criminal conspiracy jurisprudence.”
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.