Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably Gautney v. State (1969), Johnson v. State (1961)
88 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 Ex Parte Grimmett · McKee v. State · Hines v. State · Payne v. State · Johnson 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been said that § 389, Tit. 15, Code of 1940, when construed in pari materia with others, makes the right of appeal in criminal cases one of sub; stance, imposing upon the Court a duty to search the record for errors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moody v. State““Nor did the trial court err in refusing to grant the defendant’s motion' for continuance on the ground of insufficient time where the court appointed attorney had ten days in which to prepare the case before trial. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An objection to evidence must be made when the evidence is offered.”
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.