Walker v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts · Com. v. Garrett · 651 F. Supp. 44 - N.A.D.A. Services Corp. v. Business Data of Virginia, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Crawford and Melendez-Diaz ... made it clear that the admission of documentary evidence in lieu of the live testimony of witnesses violates a criminal defendant’s confrontation rights under the Sixth Amendment, if the documents are testimonial in nature, because such documents cannot be tested “in the crucible of cross-examination.””
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.