Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Justus v. Commonwealth (1981), Westbrook v. State (1979)
6 federal appellate · 48 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 Adams v. State · Walker v. State · Harris v. State · Outler v. State · Lauderdale v. State
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an established rule of law that while a trial judge may have an opinion as to the merits of the case on trial, this does not make him biased or prejudiced as to the conduct of the trial. When challenged for bias and prejudice, it is for the trial court to search his conscience and decide whether to recuse himself from the case. We find . . . the trial court conducted the trial in an exemplary manner and without any bias or prejudice toward the accused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Officer Barentine stopped his car directly behind the suspect car. Vaughan stopped his car behind and to the left side of the Barentine car. The driver of the Oldsmobile, later identified as Freeman Kumpe, got out and came around to the left rear of the Oldsmobile and met Barentine. While Barentine was beginning a search of Kumpe, Officer Vaughan went around the right rear of the Oldsmobile, ostensibly to check the other passengers in the car. Almost in the instant that Vaughan disappeared around the right rear of the' Oldsmobile, a fusillade of gunfire erupted, the autopsy report subsequently reflecting that Officer Vaughan was killed by a bullet entering his body at the front side of his chest in the heart area. She [Linda Ford] testified that appellant had a gun in his hand when he opened the right door of the Oldsmobile to meet Officer Vaughan and that appellant started shooting, being the first to fire. Appellant testified briefly in this ease but at no time did he attempt to place a gun in the hands of Linda Ford. Since Kumpe was out of the car and unarmed; Linda Ford had no gun and Officer Vaughan was slain by a bullet fired into his body as he faced appellant, the physical facts leave little, if any, doubt as to the fatal bullet coming from a gun fired by appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The court refused to grant appellant’s request for an instruction on manslaughter, and this ruling is assigned as error. The same circumstances were presented to this court in Outler v. State, 154 Ark. 598 , 243 S. W. 851 (1922), where it was said: ‘At any rate, the verdict of the jury under this instruction (of first degree and second degree murder) necessarily implied a finding that the killing was not done under circumstances which would reduce the degree of the offense to manslaughter, and no prejudice resulted from the failure of the court to instruct on the subject of manslaughter.’ See Newsome v. State, 214 Ark. 48 , 214 S. W. 2d 778 (1948), and also Talley v. State, 256 Ark. 911 , 370 S. W. 2d 604 (1963), where again the refusal to instruct on manslaughter was considered harmless error in view of the fact that the appellant was found guilty of first or second degree murder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
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.