Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Knight v. State (1962), 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987)
38 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 Phillips v. State · Boyle v. State · Byrd v. State · Pilley v. State · Easley 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The words, ‘something came in my mind to go get her,’ are said to show that the defendant was moved by an irresistible impulse and therefore a jury question Was presented as to defendant’s sanity. Again we cannot agree with the insistence of counsel for appellant. The quoted words, in our opinion, do no more than show a decision or determination on the part of defendant to do the act for which he was tried and convicted. “We hold that there was no evidence to support the insanity 'plea and that the trial court did not err in so instructing the jury and in declining in its oral charge to instruct on the law of insanity.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“despite contention that no sane man would have perpetrated such a crime and statement in Walker's confession that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“something came in my mind to go get her.”
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.