Walker v. McCuen’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Wilson v. Pulaski Ass'n of Classroom Teachers (1997), Priest v. Polk (1995)
30 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 Hodges v. Dawdy · Christian Civic Action Committee v. McCuen · Bailey v. McCuen · Plugge Ex Rel. Arkansas for Representative Democracy v. McCuen · Reeves v. Smith
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our view is that, under any rational construction, it was intended that a petition be filed within the time fixed by Amendment No. 7. To be a petition it must, prima facie, contain at the time of filing the required number of signatures. Correction and amendment go to form and error, rather than complete failure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stilley v. Priest
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.