Walker v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 213 · 1973
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections (1974)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Brady v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · McMann v. Richardson · McCarthy v. United States
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not ... every appointed counsel representing an accused who desires to plead guilty, must investigate all the facts of the case, explore all possible avenues of defense, etc.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actually and substantially assist his client in deciding whether to plead guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Beyond the problem of trials and appeals is that of the guilty plea, a problem which looms large in misdemeanor as well as felony cases. Counsel is needed so that the accused may know precisely what he is doing, so that he is fully aware of the prospect of going to jail or prison, and so that he is treated fairly by the prosecution.”
2 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.