State v. Walls’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. McGuire (1997), State v. Morgan (2004)
2 federal appellate · 137 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Batson v. Kentucky · United States v. Bagley · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is implicit in the constitutional [guarantee] of assistance of counsel. . . that an accused and his counsel shall have a reasonable time to investigate, prepare and present his defense. However, no set length of time is guaranteed and whether defendant is denied due process must be determined under the circumstances of each case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hile this fact is certainly not dispositive, it does serve as an indication that the sentence of death ... is not disproportionate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Hipps · State v. Fletcher“You know, that’s how important this case is. If you can come back and say — look Pat Pruitt right in the eye and say, “Well, I know he murdered your two sons. I know he took them out there after he slaughtered their father when they could either see or hear it. Took them out to Cecile Holder’s property and laid them face down there on the ground and shot them in the back of the head. And even though that happened, we think these 17 or 18 mitigat ing circumstances is [sic] appropriate and his family life, whatever, makes up for it; and he ought not to get the death sentence.” Well, that is not justice, and when you come back in on the basis of these kind of mitigating — alleged mitigating circumstances and look her in the eye and inform her her sons[] weren’t worth anymore than that — it would be better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea than he should offend one of these little ones. Ladies and Gentlemen, I ask you under the law, what’s right and what’s just, that you take a millstone and you hang it around his neck and you cast it right into the sea for having offended these little ones.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Sidden
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.