Walsh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Butts v. State (2001), Powell v. State (2012)
32 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Mims v. State · Sands v. State · Germany v. State · Walker 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mere presence at the scene of a crime is insufficient to show participation in the crime. [Cit.] However, a person who does not directly commit a crime may be convicted upon proof that a crime was committed and that person was a party to it. [Cit.] And whether a person was a party to a crime can be inferred from his presence, companionship, and conduct before and after the crime was committed. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Teasley 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.