State v. Walls’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably In Re the Treatment & Care of Luckabaugh (2002), Starkey v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections (2013)
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 Flemming v. Nestor · Miller v. Florida · Peoples v. United States · American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection & Indemnity Ass'n v. United States Lines, Inc. · Mark Seling Superintendent Special Commitment Center v. Andre Brigham Young
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The intent of this article is to promote the state’s fundamental right to provide for the public health, welfare, and safety of its citizens [by] ... providing] law enforcement with the tools needed in investigating criminal offenses. Statistics show that sex offenders often pose a high risk of reoffending. Additionally, law enforcement’s efforts to protect communities, conduct investigations, and apprehend offenders who commit sex offenses are impaired by the lack of information about these convicted offenders who live within the law enforcement agency’s jurisdiction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“to protect the public from those sex offenders who may re-offend and to aid law enforcement in solving sex crimes.”
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.