Commonwealth v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Chari v. Vore (2001), Commonwealth v. Bowden (1980)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 178 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bruton v. United States · United States v. Wade
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ask yourself about this particular defendant. What do you think? Do you think he knew what he was doing when he stood up there and said, “I am content with this juror? I am content with this juror? I am content with this juror?” Do you think he knew what he was doing then?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The burden is upon the Commonwealth to prove that the defendant was legally sane beyond a reasonable doubt and that he was legally responsible for any criminal offense that he may have committed. [Transcript at 1671]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The police need not carry arrest warrants around on their persons”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.