State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
March 1987
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. California · Haines v. State · Dominguez v. City of Tulsa · Ridgeway 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who willfully and wrongfully commits any act ... which openly outrages public decency, and is injurious to public morals, although no punishment is expressly prescribed therefor by this Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [Emphasis added]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vanscoy 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.