Walton v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.3d 160 · 2006
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Hooks v. Workman (2012), Richardson v. Branker (2012)
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Gregg v. Georgia · Atkins v. Virginia · Penry v. Lynaugh
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the district court's account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety, the court of appeals may not reverse it even though convinced that had it been sitting as the trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our scope of review is narrow; we do not exercise de novo review ... or substitute our version of the facts for that found by the district court. Instead, “[i]f the district court’s account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety, the court of appeals may not reverse it even though convinced that had it been sitting as the trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently.” Thus, facts found by the district court are conclusive on appeal “unless they are plainly wrong.” A factual finding by the district court may be reversed only if, “although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Flynn Effect.” Accepting these allegations in Walton’s habeas petition as true, Walton still does not state a claim that he is mentally retarded because Virginia law requires that intellectual functioning be commensurate with a score of 70 or less before age 18. Walton, 440 F.3d at 177-78 (footnotes omitted). 61 . See also Bowling v. Commonwealth, 163 S.W.3d 361, 384 (Ky.2005) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Allen
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.