Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In addition to demonstrating the existence of adverse publicity, it was incumbent upon the defendants to establish that the potential jurors were unable to set aside their preconceived notions of guilt and to render a verdict based upon the evidence. Sage v. State, (1981) [275] Ind. [699], 419 N.E.2d 1286, 1287 ; Drollinger v. State, (1980) [274] Ind. [5], 408 N.E.2d 1228, 1285 . Even if potential jurors had been exposed to pretrial publicity concerning the defendants' case that alone is insufficient to establish prejudice unless it is also demonstrated that the jurors were unable to set aside any preconceived notions they might have had. Pine v. State, (1980) [274] Ind. [78], 408 N.E.2d 1271 ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State