Commonwealth v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably Commonwealth v. Musi (1979), Commonwealth v. Sherard (1978)
32 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Smith v. Crouse · Smith v. Crouse · Commonwealth v. Wilson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The introduction into evidence of a statement obtained in the absence of counsel at a time when representation was constitutionally required; “(2) the denial of his constitutional right to representation by competent counsel; “(3) the abridgment of a right guaranteed by the constitution or laws of this Commonwealth or the United States; and “(4) the unavailability at the time of trial of exculpatory evidence that has subsequently become available and that would have affected the outcome of the trial if it had been introduced.””
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.