Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2021
5 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 Jones v. State · Goodpaster v. State · Denson v. State · Greider v. State · Patterson v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, after considering all of the evidence presented in this case, you find that the mandatory punishment inflicted on the Defendant under the Habitual Offender Statute is excessive under the standards read to you, then you may take that finding into consideration in rendering your verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meeks v. State“Final Instruction 9-B reads as follows: The word "intoxication" means a condition that results in a person's normal faculties, either of perception, of physical ability, or of judgment being impaired so that he no longer has the capacity to form or entertain a specific intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wininger v. State“the refused instruction[] would have conveyed to the jury the belief that it had a power of nullification, which clearly it does not possess under the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meeks v. State
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.