Walton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Walker v. Commonwealth (1999), Teleguz v. Com. (2007)
44 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 Soberon v. United States · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Toliver v. County of Sullivan · Deboue v. Louisiana · Reichelt v. Gates
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the trial court was divested of jurisdiction once the defendant filed his notices of appeal”); McCoy, 55 Va. App. at 528 , 687 S.E.2d at 84 (addressing the merits of the appeal and concluding”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In assessing the penalty of any person convicted of an offense for which the death penalty may be imposed, a sentence of death shall not be imposed unless the court or jury shall (1) after consideration of the past criminal record of convictions of the defendant, find that there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing serious threat to society or that his conduct in committing the offense for which he stands charged was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind or an aggravated battery to the victim; and (2) recommend that the penalty of death be imposed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the .32-caliber pistol recovered from the lake and was consistent with the bullets that had killed Moore and Mrs. Kendrick. The pistol contained four bullets and two spent cartridges. The lead contained in the bullets found in Moore's car, the bullets recovered from the heads of the victims, and the bullets in the revolver originated from the same manufacturing source. 20 While in jail awaiting trial for the capital murder charges and related offenses, Walton admitted to several inmates that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walton v. Angelone
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.