Commonwealth v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Salazar (1997), Commonwealth v. McGrogan (1972)
67 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Rivera v. United States · Commonwealth v. Johnston · Wortex Mills, Inc. v. Textile Workers Union of America · Commonwealth v. Roundtree · Commonwealth v. Lawrence
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . We . . . [believe] • • • that it is in the interest of both a defendant’s estate and society that any challenge initiated by a defendant to the regularity or constitutionality of a criminal proceeding be fully reviewed and decided by the appellate process.””
5 later decisions 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.