State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2002
4 federal appellate · 20 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 Anders v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson · Bullock v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not our function to second guess the decisions of experienced trial attorneys regarding matters of trial tactics.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wabasha v. Leapley · Roden v. Solem“that defense counsel had many years experience as a practicing attorney and was particularly successful as a criminal defense lawyer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Solem“the defendant has failed to carry the burden of showing that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Solem
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.