Walker v. Deeds’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 670 · 1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Tucker · Harmelin v. Michigan · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · Hicks v. Oklahoma
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court in this case did not “clearly disclose” that it “weighed the appropriate factors for and against the criminal enhancement.” The court did not decide that it was “just and proper,” based on the nature and gravity of his prior convictions, to adjudge Walker a habitual offender under the relevant statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hughes v. State“Nevada's law requiring a court to review and make particularized findings that it is lust and proper' for a defendant to be adjudged a habitual offender also creates a constitutionally protected liberty interest in a sentencing procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. LaChance 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.