Walker v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 1378 · 1969
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2003 · most notably Laird v. Tatum (1972), Echols v. State (1996)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Burgett v. Texas · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen v. Bangor & Aroostook Railroad · Gideon v. Cochran · In re Union Leader Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he only way to ascertain the true meaning or import of any isolated remark is to consider it in the light and context in which it is uttered. This is just plain common sense as well as good law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. State · Hardin v. State“In the first place, his was the last of the five cars to arrive at the scene. The Walker car was the lead car and pulled slightly off the highway on the righthand side. Officer Barentine’s car was immediately behind the Walker car. It was Barentine who stopped the Walker car. Officer Vaughan’s car arrived immediately and he pulled towards the center of the narrow highway. The next car to arrive was the cab which had passed Alderman’s cab. It was only after this that Alderman’s cab arrived, and it was parked angling towards the left side of the highway. It was somewhere near 2:00 o’clock in the morning, and dark. It seems impossible from a physical standpoint for Alderman to have seen anything that transpired in connection with the shooting after he arrived because the murder was committed at the front door of the lead car where Walker was seated, as Officer Vaughan approached the Walker car.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he alleged statement * * * if made, could at the very most be construed to indicate the judge's feelings that the defendant was guilty and any such innermost thoughts on the part of the judge constituted no cause for his disqualification.”
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.