State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2002 · most notably Corbitt v. New Jersey (1978), State v. Driver (1962)
6 district · 36 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 Snowden v. Hughes · Eubanks v. State of Louisiana · Rufus Martin v. State of Texas · State v. Smith · Osslo v. California
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a showing of bias or prejudice, the participation of a judge in previous proceedings in the case before him is not a ground for disqualification. (citation omitted). And the fact that a judgment resulting from previous proceedings is reversed on appeal is likewise not a sufficient ground for disqualification. [ State v. Walker, 33 N.J. 580, 591 (1960).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no showing that the trial judge had any personal or private interest apart from the fulfillment of his judicial duties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“designate by their verdict whether it be murder in the first degree or in the second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.